[ Suresec Advisories ] - Linux kernel ia32 compatibility (ia64/x86-64) race condition

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Suresec Security Advisory  - #00004
10/07/05

Linux kernel ia32 compatibility race condition 
Advisory: http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv4.pdf <http://www.suresec.org/advisories/adv3.pdf>

Description:

A race condition vulnerability has been found in the ia32 compatibility 
execve() systemcall. The race condition may lead to heap corruption.

Risk:

Exploitation of this vulnerability may results in panics, oopses or 
in the worst case code exection at ring 0.

Credit:

The vulnerability was discovered by Ilja van Sprundel.