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kernel: local root privilege escalation
| Package(s): | linux-2.6 | CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0010 CVE-2008-0600 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | February 11, 2008 | Updated: | June 23, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Debian advisory: The vmsplice system call did not properly verify address arguments passed by user space processes, which allowed local attackers to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, gaining root privileges (CVE-2008-0010, CVE-2008-0600). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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kernel: local root privilege escalation
Posted Feb 13, 2008 10:04 UTC (Wed) by mjcox@redhat.com (subscriber, #31775) [Link]