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Ubuntu 11.10: USN-1740-1 Critical: linux-ti-omap4 Admin Access Risk

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2013
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1921-2 reports a vulnerability in linux-ti-omap5 that enables unauthorized root access due to a synchronization flaw.
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-ti-omap4: Linux kernel for OMAP4

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 security issue race condition ubuntu linux kernel admin access linux-ti-omap4

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 11.10:
  linux-image-3.0.0-1221-omap4    3.0.0-1221.35

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1740-1

CVE-2013-0871

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February 22, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue race condition ubuntu linux kernel admin access linux-ti-omap4

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti-omap4/3.0.0-1221.35

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