CVE-2011-1021 | BDVDB-2026-50635 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/5
- 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
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.