CVE-2010-0729: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on the ia64 platform allows local users to use ptrace on an arbitrary process, and consequently gain privileges, via vectors related to a missing ptrace_check_attach call.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4 only

Published 2010-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.