Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2013-2929

The Linux kernel before 3.12.2 does not properly use the get_dumpable function, which allows local users to bypass intended ptrace restrictions or obtain sensitive information from IA64 scratch registers via a crafted application, related to kernel/ptrace.c and arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h.

EPSS: 0.007 (47.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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