Candidate: CVE-2010-0729 PublicDate: 2010-03-16 19:30:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0729 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. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: kees> RedHat-specific patch. Bugs: Priority: high Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Patches_linux-source-2.6.15: upstream_linux-source-2.6.15: not-affected dapper_linux-source-2.6.15: not-affected hardy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE intrepid_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE jaunty_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE karmic_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE devel_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE Patches_linux: upstream_linux: not-affected dapper_linux: DNE hardy_linux: not-affected intrepid_linux: not-affected jaunty_linux: not-affected karmic_linux: not-affected devel_linux: not-affected