CVE-2009-3556: Linux Kernel
Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
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Published 2010-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.