Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1897

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-07-20 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 05:27:54

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The tun_chr_poll function in drivers/net/tun.c in the tun subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and 2.6.30.1, when the -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks gcc option is omitted, allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving a NULL pointer dereference and an mmap of /dev/net/tun, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1894.

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