Several vulnerabilities were discovered in SystemTap, an instrumentation
system for Linux:
- CVE-2011-2503
It was discovered that a race condition in staprun could lead to
privilege escalation.
- CVE-2010-4170
It was discovered that insufficient validation of environment
variables in staprun could lead to privilege escalation.
- CVE-2010-4171
It was discovered that insufficient validation of module unloading
could lead to denial of service.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2-5+squeeze1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your systemtap packages.