CVE-2009-3556

LowCVSS 1.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 1.9/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jan 27, 2010
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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