CVE-2010-0729

Impact

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on the ia64 platform allows local users to use ptrace on an arbitrary process, and consequently gain privileges, via vectors related to a missing ptrace_check_attach call.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100090459
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/12/2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0394.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38702
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572007
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8687
• http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100090459
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/12/2
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0394.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38702
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572007
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8687