The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero extend the %eax register after the 32-bit entry path to ptrace is used, which allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %rax register. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2007-4573 regression.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T03:03:18.920Z
Reserved: 2010-09-13T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2010-3301

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2010-09-22T19:00:03.323
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2010-3301
