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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:04:54 +0200
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: two systemtap flaws: CVE-2011-2502 and CVE-2011-2503

Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com> wrote:

> This is just a heads up to notify those who are shipping systemtap that
> two flaws were found that could allow members of group stapusr to elevate
> their privileges:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2502
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2503
> 

Interesting, I also looked at systemtap and found a local root
(CVE-2010-4170), but was under the impression we had agreed it should be
restricted to a privileged group?

https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:Alerts/systemtap-2010-11-18

I stopped looking because I concluded that had eliminated any security risk,
is that no longer the case?

(I dont have an up to date RHEL machine to check)


Tavis.


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