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Linux Kernel Ptrace Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA8337
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Release Date: 2003-03-19
Last Update: 2004-04-19
Popularity: 10,576 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Linux Kernel 2.2.x
Linux Kernel 2.4.x
Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Solution:
Linux kernel 2.2.25 has been released:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/patch-2.2.25.bz2

An new version of the 2.4 kernel has not been released yet.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Andrzej Szombierski

Changelog:
2004-04-19: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.

Other References:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-03-18-001-26-SC-KN-SW

US-CERT VU#628849:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/628849

Change Page:
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