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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2348-1 systemtap -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

17 Nov 2011

Affected Packages:

systemtap

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-4170, CVE-2010-4171, CVE-2011-2503.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in SystemTap, an instrumentation system for Linux:

• CVE-2011-2503

  It was discovered that a race condition in staprun could lead to privilege escalation.

• CVE-2010-4170

  It was discovered that insufficient validation of environment variables in staprun could lead to privilege escalation.

• CVE-2010-4171

  It was discovered that insufficient validation of module unloading could lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2-5+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your systemtap packages.