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Intel® Math Kernel Library Insecure File Permission Local Privilege Escalation
| Intel ID | INTEL-SA-00025 |
|---|---|
| Product family | Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) |
| Impact of vulnerability | Elevation of Privilege |
| Severity rating | Important |
| Original release | Jul 20, 2010 |
| Last revised | Jul 23, 2010 |
Summary:
The Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) is a library of highly optimized, extensively threaded math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications that require maximum performance. An updated version of the software is available for Intel® MKL users to mitigate this vulnerability.
Description:
The vulnerability in the software could allow an authenticated attacker to gain elevated privilege. Intel has released a software update to the Intel® MKL users to resolve this issue.
This issue only affects the systems with Intel® MKL development environment installed and the issue does not affect applications developed using the libraries from Intel® MKL.
Affected products:
Intel® MKL 10.2 update 1 and prior versions are affected by this issue.
Recommendations:
Affected Intel® MKL users are recommended to:
1. Uninstall Intel® MKL instances prior to version 10.2 update 1
2. Install Intel® MKL 10.2 update 2 or later
Updated Intel® MKL is available at http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl/. If you are unable to upgrade or would like more information, please contact Intel Support (http://premier.intel.com).
Acknowledgements:
Intel would like to thank Leif Nixon for working with us.
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