Gentoo: GLSA-200402-06 Normal: Ptrace Privilege Escalation
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February 17, 2004
A vulnerability has been discovered by in the ptrace emulation code for AMD64 platforms when eflags are processed, allowing a local user to obtain elevated priveleges
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200402-06 ~ https://security.gentoo.org/
~ Severity: Normal ~ Title: Linux kernel AMD64 ptrace vulnerability ~ Date: February 17, 2004 ~ ID: 200402-06
Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered by in the ptrace emulation code for AMD64 platforms when eflags are processed, allowing a local user to obtain elevated priveleges.
Affected packages ================ ~ ------------------------------------------------------- ~ Kernel / Unaffected Version ~ -------------------------------------------------------
~ ck-sources..........................2.6.2-r1........... ~ development-sources.................2.6.2.............. ~ gentoo-dev-sources..................2.6.2.............. ~ gentoo-sources......................2.4.20-r12......... ~ gs-sources......................Read the Full Advisory
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