Security Advisory

CVE-2001-1384

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-07-31 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 04:51:08
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

ptrace in Linux 2.2.x through 2.2.19, and 2.4.x through 2.4.9, allows local users to gain root privileges by running ptrace on a setuid or setgid program that itself calls an unprivileged program, such as newgrp.