A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on the ia64 platform allows local users to use ptrace on an arbitrary process, and consequently gain privileges, via vectors related to a missing ptrace_check_attach call.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2010-03-16T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:59:38.963Z

Reserved: 2010-02-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-0729

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-03-16T19:30:00.430

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-0729

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2010-02-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-0729 - Bugzilla