CVE-2010-0729

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 14 years ago

2010-03-16 19:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:30:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

4

References

http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100090459

[oss-security] 20100312 CVE-2010-0729 kernel: ia64: ptrace: peek_or_poke requests miss ptrace_check_attach()

RHSA-2010:0394

38702

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572007

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8687

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