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CVE-2011-1021

Published: Jun 21, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20110225 Re: CVE request: kernel: /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method can bypass module restrictions

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3

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http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680841

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