Gentoo: GLSA-200403-02 High: Kernel Privilege Escalation Threat
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March 6, 2004
A critical security vulnerability has been found in recent Linux kernels by Paul Starzetz of iSEC Security Research which allows for local privilege escalations
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200403-02 ~ https://security.gentoo.org/
~ Severity: High ~ Title: Linux kernel do_mremap local privilege escalation ~ vulnerability ~ Date: March 06, 2004 ~ Bugs: #42024 ~ ID: 200403-02
Synopsis ======= A critical security vulnerability has been found in recent Linux kernels by Paul Starzetz of iSEC Security Research which allows for local privilege escalations.
Background ========= 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 ================ ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ Kernel / Unaffected Version / Manual Update? ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------
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