CVE-2010-0729

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 1
Downstream
RHSA-2010:0394
Modified
Published: 16 Mar 2010, 19:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 00:59

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
28/100
CVSS Score
6.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.05% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

16 Mar 2010, 19:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 00:59
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.05%• Percentile: 15%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • redhat•enterprise_linux

    4

References (6)