4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.5%
The auto-reap of child processes in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.15 includes
processes with ptrace attached, which leads to a dangling ptrace reference
and allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and gain root
privileges.