National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0024
Original release date:01/13/2009
Last revised:01/13/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The sys_remap_file_pages function in mm/fremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.24.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to the vm_file structure member, and the mmap_region and do_munmap functions.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (01/14/2009)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.
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External Source: BID
Name: 33211
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090112 CVE-2009-0024 kernel: local privilege escalation in sys_remap_file_pages
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commit;h=8a459e44ad837018ea5c34a9efe8eb4ad27ded26