Debian Linux Security Advisory 2972-1 - Andy Lutomirski discovered that the ptrace syscall was not verifying the RIP register to be valid in the ptrace API on x86_64 processors. An unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel (resulting in denial of service) or for privilege escalation.
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