Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-0741-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's ptrace implementation handled PTRACE_SETREGS requests when the debuggee was woken due to a SIGKILL signal instead of being stopped. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.
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