fkie_cve-2011-1021
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2012-06-21 23:55
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/5
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680841
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680841
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3Exploit, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 2.6.9
linux linux_kernel 2.6.9
linux linux_kernel 2.6.9
linux linux_kernel 2.6.9


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