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systemtap: privilege execution

Package(s):systemtap CVE #(s):CVE-2010-4170
Created:November 17, 2010 Updated:November 23, 2010
Description: The staprun utility contains two vulnerabilities which can be exploited for privilege escalation by local users; see this advisory for (a little) more information.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-2348-1 2011-11-17
CentOS CESA-2010:0895 2010-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2010-17868 2010-11-18
Fedora FEDORA-2010-17873 2010-11-18
Fedora FEDORA-2010-17865 2010-11-18
CentOS CESA-2010:0894 2010-11-17
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0894-01 2010-11-17
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0895-01 2010-11-17
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