CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1527
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-05-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the ptrace_attach function in kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc4 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace call during an exec system call that is launching a setuid application, related to locking an incorrect cred_exec_mutex object.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.29)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.30
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cad81bc2529ab8c62b6fdc83a1c0c7f4a87209eb git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34977 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35120 Broken Link
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0084 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.30-rc4 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/04/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/54188 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503610/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34799 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1236 Not Applicable
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50293 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cad81bc2529ab8c62b6fdc83a1c0c7f4a87209eb git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34977 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35120 Broken Link
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0084 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.30-rc4 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/04/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/54188 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503610/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34799 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1236 Not Applicable
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50293 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry