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Debian: DSA-2972-1 severe: ptrace DoS and Privilege Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2014
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Security Notice DSA-2972-2 outlines vulnerabilities related to ptrace system call validation in Debian platforms.
Andy Lutomirski discovered that the ptrace syscall was not verifying the RIP register to be valid in the ptrace API on x86_64 processors
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.2.60-1+deb7u1. In addition, this update contains several
bugfixes originally targeted for the upcoming Wheezy point release.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: linux
CVE ID: CVE-2014-4699

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