CVE-2010-0729

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.9
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Enterprise Linux
PublishedMar 16, 2010
First seenMar 16, 2010

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat enterprise_linux4—

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