Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-4484 linux - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
Jann Horn discovered that the ptrace subsystem in the Linux kernelmishandles the management of the credentials of a process that wants tocreate a ptrace relationship, allowing a local user to obtain rootprivileges under certain scenarios.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4484