CVE-2010-0729

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4

References

http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100090459
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/12/2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0394.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38702
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572007
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8687
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100090459
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/12/2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0394.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38702
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572007
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8687

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