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VPR Score: 7.4
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator.
Solution
Update the affected package(s).