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CVE-2010-0729

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2010-03-16 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on the ia64 platform allows local users to use ptrace on an arbitrary process, and consequently gain privileges, via vectors related to a missing ptrace_check_attach call.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References