PublicDate: 2005-01-10 05:00:00 UTC Candidate: CVE-2004-1070 References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1070 Description: The load_elf_binary function in the binfmt_elf loader (binfmt_elf.c) in Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.27, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.8, does not properly check return values from calls to the kernel_read function, which may allow local users to modify sensitive memory in a setuid program and execute arbitrary code. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Priority: untriaged Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Bugs: dapper_linux-source-2.6.15: released (2.6.15-29.58) edgy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE feisty_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE devel_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE dapper_linux-source-2.6.17: DNE edgy_linux-source-2.6.17: released (2.6.17.1-12.40) feisty_linux-source-2.6.17: DNE devel_linux-source-2.6.17: DNE upstream_linux-source-2.6.15: needs-triage upstream_linux-source-2.6.17: needs-triage