Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:26:21 +0200
From: Suresec Advisories <advisories@suresec.org.>
To: [email protected], [email protected]Subject: [ Suresec Advisories ] - Linux kernel ia32 compatibility (ia64/x86-64)
race condition
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Suresec Security Advisory - #00004
10/07/05
Linux kernel ia32 compatibility race condition
Advisory: http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv4.pdf <http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv3.pdf>;
Description:
A race condition vulnerability has been found in the ia32 compatibility
execve() systemcall. The race condition may lead to heap corruption.
Risk:
Exploitation of this vulnerability may results in panics, oopses or
in the worst case code exection at ring 0.
Credit:
The vulnerability was discovered by Ilja van Sprundel.
