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Gentoo: GLSA-200401-01 High: Kernel Privilege Escalation Issue

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Protect your Gentoo setup from a severe privilege elevation vulnerability found in the Linux kernel. Act promptly to reduce exposure.
A critical security vulnerability has been found in recent Linux kernels which allows for local privilege escalation.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200401-01
~ https://security.gentoo.org/

~  Severity: High
~     Title: Linux kernel do_mremap() privilege escalation vulnerability
~      Date: January 08, 2004
~      Bugs: #37292, #37317
~        ID: 200401-01


Synopsis
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A critical security vulnerability has been found in recent Linux kernels
which allows for local privilege escalation.

Background
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The Linux kernel is responsible for memory management in a working
system - to allow this, processes are allowed to allocate and unallocate
memory.

Affected packages
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~ Kernel / Unaffected Version / Manual Update?
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~   aa-sources................2.4.23-r1...................YES..........
~   alpha...
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