Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-0342

Title: Provos Systrace

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-0342.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Jan 29, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-0342: Niels Provos Systrace before 1.6f on the x86_64 Linux platform allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by making a 64-bit syscall with a syscall number that corresponds to a policy-compliant 32-bit syscall.

Impacted Vendors

systrace 1

provos 1

Reference Links

http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-001.html http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/01/bypassing-syscall-filtering.html http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500377/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33417 http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-001.html http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/01/bypassing-syscall-filtering.html http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500377/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33417

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-0342 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 29, 2009 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.