The IA32 system call emulation functionality in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x before 2.6.22.7, when running on the x86_64 architecture, does not zero extend the eax register after the 32bit entry path to ptrace is used, which might allow local users to gain privileges by triggering an out-of-bounds access to the system call table using the %RAX register.
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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480705/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25774 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-518-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3246 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1754 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4573 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9735 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4573 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00355.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2007-09-24T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:01:09.784Z

Reserved: 2007-08-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-4573

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-09-24T22:17:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:35:55.607

Link: CVE-2007-4573

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-4573 - Bugzilla