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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0729

Original release date:03/16/2010

Last revised:08/21/2010

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on the ia64 platform allows local users to use ptrace on an arbitrary process, and consequently gain privileges, via vectors related to a missing ptrace_check_attach call.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.9 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 3.4

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/17/2010)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2010-0729. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 5 or Red Hat Enterprise MRG, as they do not include the internal change introducing this flaw. A future update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 may address this flaw.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572007

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572007

External Source: BID

Name: 38702

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38702

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2010:0394

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0394.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20100312 CVE-2010-0729 kernel: ia64: ptrace: peek_or_poke requests miss ptrace_check_attach()

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/12/2