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Linux ELF Core Dump Priviledge Escalation
by bucy at 10:50 pm EDT, May 11, 2005

] A locally exploitable flaw has been found in the Linux
] ELF binary format loader's core dump function that allows
] local users to gain root privileges and also execute
] arbitrary code at kernel privilege level.

This affects all of 2.2/2.4/2.6.