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[USN-2597-1] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

Severity Medium
CVEs 1
Info Vulnerabilities

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

A race condition between chown() and execve() was discovered in the Linux
kernel. A local attacker could exploit this race by using chown on a
setuid-user-binary to gain administrative privileges.

ID
USN-2597-1
Severity
medium
Severity from
CVE-2015-3339
URL
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2597-1
Published
2015-05-05T22:01:05
(9 years ago)
Modified
2015-05-05T22:01:05
(9 years ago)
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