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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.
 
Revision history: 
Revision
Date
Description
1.0
20-July-2010
Initial release
1.1.
23-July-2010
Corrected affected version numbers

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