Security Advisory

CVE-2004-1070

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2004-12-01 05:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-08 00:39:00

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The load_elf_binary function in the binfmt_elf loader (binfmt_elf.c) in Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.27, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.8, does not properly check return values from calls to the kernel_read function, which may allow local users to modify sensitive memory in a setuid program and execute arbitrary code.

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