Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1527

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-05-05 20:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 05:13:25

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition in the ptrace_attach function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc4 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace call during an exec system call that is launching a setuid application, related to locking an incorrect cred_exec_mutex object.

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