{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2011-07-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "systemtap: signed module loading race condition",
    "id" : "716489",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716489"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.0",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The insert_module function in runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c in the systemtap runtime tool (staprun) in SystemTap before 1.6 does not properly validate a module when loading it, which allows local users to gain privileges via a race condition between the signature validation and the module initialization." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-07-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1089",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "systemtap-0:1.3-9.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-07-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1088",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "systemtap-0:1.4-6.el6_1.2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "systemtap",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "impact" : "low"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2503\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2503\nhttp://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git;a=commitdiff;h=ed51cfa24ca27746ab09b59280b94117dd58cba3" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-2503",
  "csaw" : false
}