Description

Niels Provos Systrace before 1.6f on the x86_64 Linux platform allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by making a 64-bit syscall with a syscall number that corresponds to a policy-compliant 32-bit syscall.

References

http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-001.html

http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/01/bypassing-syscall-filtering.html

http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500377/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33417

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0