UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1021
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-1021, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1253.html, https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/22/369, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1021
Affected packages
Package
Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -3.11.0-12.19
Affected versions
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
