CVE-2009-0784: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in the SystemTap stap tool 0.0.20080705 and 0.0.20090314 allows local users in the stapusr group to insert arbitrary SystemTap kernel modules and gain privileges via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only
• Systemtap Systemtap: version 0.0.20080705 only; version 0.0.20090314 only

Published 2009-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.