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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS USN-1738-1 Critical: Kernel Race Condition Admin Access

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2013
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Debian security patches for USN-1740-2 resolve a vulnerability that permits illicit root entry. Ensure your machine is updated today.
The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Summary

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description:

- linux-lts-backport-oneiric: Linux kernel backport from Oneiric

Details:

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory unauthorized access race condition ubuntu kernel backport

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  linux-image-3.0.0-31-generic    3.0.0-31.49~lucid1
  linux-image-3.0.0-31-generic-pae  3.0.0-31.49~lucid1
  linux-image-3.0.0-31-server     3.0.0-31.49~lucid1
  linux-image-3.0.0-31-virtual    3.0.0-31.49~lucid1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2013-0871

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February 22, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory unauthorized access race condition ubuntu kernel backport

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-backport-oneiric/3.0.0-31.49~lucid1

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