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CVE-2006-6304 PUBLISHED

Reported by mitre · Published December 14, 2006

The do_coredump function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.19 sets the flag variable to O_EXCL but does not use it, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify arbitrary files via a rewrite attack during a core dump.

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