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CVE-2011-2905

Published: Mar 1, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

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

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729808

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea

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[oss-security] 20110809 Re: CVE request: perf: may parse user-controlled config file

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