CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-1021

Published: Jun 21, 2012 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 2.6.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.9-rc1 (including) 2.6.9-rc1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.9-rc2 (including) 2.6.9-rc2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.9-rc3 (including) 2.6.9-rc3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.9-rc4 (including) 2.6.9-rc4 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 RedHat kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.9-rt31.75.el6rt *
Linux Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-ec2 Ubuntu maverick *
Linux-ec2 Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-flo Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-fsl-imx51 Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-goldfish Ubuntu saucy *
Linux-goldfish Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-grouper Ubuntu saucy *
Linux-grouper Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-lts-backport-maverick Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-lts-backport-natty Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-maguro Ubuntu saucy *
Linux-maguro Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-mako Ubuntu saucy *
Linux-mako Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-manta Ubuntu saucy *
Linux-manta Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-mvl-dove Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-ti-omap4 Ubuntu upstream *

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