CVE-2011-2905
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 1, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 27, 2011
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the perf_config function in tools/perf/util/config.c in perf, as distributed in the Linux kernel before 3.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted config file in the current working directory.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729808
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea
- [oss-security] 20110809 Re: CVE request: perf: may parse user-controlled config filemailing-list
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