CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-0871

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2013-02-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-02-18
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 functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.5 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACE_SETREGS ptrace system call in a crafted application, as demonstrated by ptrace_death.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 3.7.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References