CVE-2009-0784

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-03-25
Bugzilla:
489808: CVE-2009-0784 systemtap: race condition leads to privilege escalation

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Race condition in the SystemTap stap tool 0.0.20080705 and 0.0.20090314 allows local users in the stapusr group to insert arbitrary SystemTap kernel modules and gain privileges via unknown vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0784 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (systemtap) RHSA-2009:0373 2009-03-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (systemtap) RHSA-2009:0373 2009-03-26

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Erik Sjölund for reporting this issue.

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