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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1755-1 (systemtap)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.9

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to systemtap announced via advisory DSA 1755-1.

Insight

Insight

Erik Sjoelund discovered that a race condition in the stap tool shipped by Systemtap, an instrumentation system for Linux 2.6, allows local privilege escalation for members of the stapusr group. The old stable distribution (etch) isn't affected. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20080705-1+lenny1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.0.20090314-2. We recommend that you upgrade your systemtap package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201755-1

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