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...

CVE-2009-1527

CVE-2009-1527 affects the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.30-rc4, where a race condition in ptrace_attach (kernel/ptrace.c) can let local users escalate privileges during an exec that launches a setuid process. The root cause is locking of an incorrect cred_exec_mutex object, enabling a PTRACE_ATTACH p...

CVE-2008-2365

Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 through 2.6.25, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4, allows local users to cause a denial of service oops via a long series of PTRACEATTACH ptrace calls to another user's process that trigger a conflict between...

CVE-2008-2365

CVE-2008-2365 describes a race condition in Linux kernel ptrace/utrace support (kernel 2.6.9–2.6.25) used by RHEL4. A local user can cause a denial of service (oops) by issuing a long sequence of PTRACE_ATTACH calls that trigger a conflict between utrace_detach and report_quiescent due to a late ...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-67.0.20.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - fix percpu api bugon wit...