Privilege Escalation

systemtap is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists as a race condition flaw was found in the way the staprun utility performed module loading. A local user who is a member of the stapusr group could use this flaw to modify a signed module while it is being loaded, allowing...

CentOS 5 : systemtap (CESA-2011:1089)

Updated systemtap packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...