Security Advisory

CVE-2003-1161

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-05-10 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-16 23:52:04

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

exit.c in Linux kernel 2.6-test9-CVS, as stored on kernel.bkbits.net, was modified to contain a backdoor, which could allow local users to elevate their privileges by passing __WCLONE|__WALL to the sys_wait4 function.

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