CVE-2011-1021 (GCVE-0-2011-1021)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-21 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
drivers/acpi/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to modify arbitrary kernel memory locations by leveraging root privileges to write to the /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4347.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680841 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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