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SUSE-SA:2005:003: kernel local privilege escalation

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SUSE-SA:2005:003: kernel local privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/21/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/08/2005
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

Race condition in the page fault handler (fault.c) for Linux kernel 2.2.x to 2.2.7, 2.4 to 2.4.29, and 2.6 to 2.6.10, when running on multiprocessor machines, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via concurrent threads that share the same virtual memory space and simultaneously request stack expansion.

Solution(s)

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