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.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 3.6/10
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:PWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680841
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3Exploit, Patch
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680841
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3Exploit, Patch
Timeline
- Published
- Jun 21, 2012
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified