USN-1740-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability
First published: Fri Feb 22 2013(Updated: )
Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator.
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/linux-image-3.0.0-1221-omap4 | <3.0.0-1221.35 | 3.0.0-1221.35 |
| =11.10 |
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Reference Links
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0871
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1741-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1739-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1743-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1745-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1742-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1738-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1744-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1737-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1736-1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti-omap4/3.0.0-1221.35
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1740-1 (Advisory)
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