Vulnerability Bulletins |
DSA-2972 linux - security update |
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| Affected software | Debian |
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Andy Lutomirski discovered that the ptrace syscall was not verifying theRIP register to be valid in the ptrace API on x86_64 processors. Anunprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel (resulting indenial of service) or for privilege escalation. More info: https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2972 |
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