CVE-2011-1021
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 21, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 14, 2011
Description
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.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20110225 Re: CVE request: kernel: /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method can bypass module restrictionsmailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680841
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