| CVE-2009-3556 | Date: (C)2010-01-27 (M)2024-02-22 |
A certain Red Hat configuration step for the qla2xxx driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, when N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) hardware is used, sets world-writable permissions for the (1) vport_create and (2) vport_delete files under /sys/class/scsi_host/, which allows local users to make arbitrary changes to SCSI host attributes by modifying these files.
CVSS Score and Metrics +CVSS Score and Metrics -| CVSS V2 Severity: |
| CVSS Score : 1.9 |
| Exploit Score: 3.4 |
| Impact Score: 2.9 |
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| CVSS V2 Metrics: |
| Access Vector: LOCAL |
| Access Complexity: MEDIUM |
| Authentication: NONE |
| Confidentiality: NONE |
| Integrity: PARTIAL |
| Availability: NONE |
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