Improper Privilege Management Affecting kernel-debug-devel package, versions <0:2.6.32-71.14.1.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.82% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-KERNELDEBUGDEVEL-2456550
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed22 Sept 2010

Introduced: 22 Sep 2010

CVE-2010-3301  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 kernel-debug-devel to version 0:2.6.32-71.14.1.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2011-0007.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-devel package and not the kernel-debug-devel package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero extend the %eax register after the 32-bit entry path to ptrace is used, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %rax register. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2007-4573 regression.

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