CVE-2010-0729 Information

Description

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on the ia64 platform allows local users to use ptrace on an arbitrary process and consequently gain privileges via vectors related to a missing ptrace_check_attach call.

Reference

http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100090459 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/12/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0394.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38702 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572007 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A8687