sledp2-udev

Security update for udev

Security update for udev

This update fixes a local privilege escalation in udev. CVE-2009-1185: udev did not check the origin of the netlink messages. A local attacker could fake device create events and so gain root privileges. The previous update did not apply the actual patch fixing this problem, as was reported to us by SGI. Please reboot the machine after installing the update, or run: /etc/init.d/boot.udev restart This update fixes a local privilege escalation in udev. CVE-2009-1185: udev did not check the origin of the netlink messages. A local attacker could fake device create events and so gain root privileges. The previous update did not apply the actual patch fixing this problem, as was reported to us by SGI. Please reboot the machine after installing the update, or run: /etc/init.d/boot.udev restart security udev i586 08382d9e02a686943039dc2f31d2eb642459377d