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kernel: privilege escalation

Package(s):

kernel-source-2.6.8

CVE #(s):

CVE-2006-3626

Created:

July 27, 2006

Updated:

August 23, 2006

Description:

The kernel process filesystem has a race condition that can be exploited for the purpose of privilege escalation. This affects multiple architectures.

Alerts:

Red Hat	RHSA-2006:0617-01	2006-08-22
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2006:049	2006-08-18
Debian	DSA-1111-2	2006-07-26

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kernel: privilege escalation

Posted Aug 9, 2006 6:29 UTC (Wed) by kolyshkin (subscriber, #34342) [Link]

This is actually CVE-2006-3626; looks like the announcer made a mistake.