CVE-2009-1527

Race condition in the ptraceattach function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc4 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACEATTACH ptrace call during an exec system call that is launching a setuid application, related to locking an incorrect credexecmutex object...

Race condition

Race condition in the ptraceattach function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc4 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACEATTACH ptrace call during an exec system call that is launching a setuid application, related to locking an incorrect credexecmutex object...

kernel: exit_notify: kill the wrong capable(CAP_KILL) check

The exitnotify function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc1 does not restrict exit signals when the CAPKILL capability is held, which allows local users to send an arbitrary signal to a process by running a program that modifies the exitsignal field and then uses an exec system...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-199-1)

A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the syssetmempolicy function. By calling the function with a negative first argument, a local attacker could cause a kernel crash. CAN-2005-3053 A race condition was discovered in the handling of shared memory mappings with CLONEVM. A local...

FreeBSD-SA-02:08.exec

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-02:08 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: race condition during exec may allow local root compromise Category: core Module: kernel Announced: 2002-01-24 Credits: Logan...