[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: udev-127-5.fc10

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-3711
2009-04-16 14:36:46
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Name        : udev
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 127
Release     : 5.fc10
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
Summary     : A userspace implementation of devfs
Description :
The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in
userspace using sysfs and netlink.

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Update Information:

udev provides a user-space API and implements a dynamic device directory,
providing only the devices present on the system. udev replaces devfs in order
to provide greater hot plug functionality. Netlink is a datagram oriented
service, used to transfer information between kernel modules and user-space
processes.    It was discovered that udev did not properly check the origin of
Netlink messages. A local attacker could use this flaw to gain root privileges
via a crafted Netlink message sent to udev, causing it to create a world-
writable block device file for an existing system block device (for example, the
root file system). (CVE-2009-1185)    An integer overflow flaw, potentially
leading to heap-based buffer overflow was found in one of the utilities
providing functionality of the udev device information interface. An attacker
could use this flaw to cause a denial of service, or possibly, to execute
arbitrary code by providing a specially-crafted arguments as input to this
utility. (CVE-2009-1186)    Thanks to Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security
Team for responsibly reporting this flaw.    Users of udev are advised to
upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct
this issue. After installing the update, the udevd daemon will be restarted
automatically.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 16 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 127-5
- fix for CVE-2009-1186
* Wed Apr 15 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com> 127-4
- fix for CVE-2009-1185
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #495051 - CVE-2009-1185 udev: Uncheck origin of NETLINK messages
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495051
  [ 2 ] Bug #495052 - CVE-2009-1186 udev: Buffer overflow in path encoding routine
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495052
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update udev' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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