CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4573

7.2 HIGH Published 2007-09-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-09-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The IA32 system call emulation functionality in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x before 2.6.22.7, when running on the x86_64 architecture, does not zero extend the eax register after the 32bit entry path to ptrace is used, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %RAX register.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.4.35) • linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.22.6)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References