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ELSA-2007-0937 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security update

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ELSA-2007-0937 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/27/2007
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
06/21/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-hugemem
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-hugemem-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-largesmp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-largesmp-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-smp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-smp-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xenu
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xenu-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-ocfs2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-oracleasm

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