CVE-2011-2905

MediumCVSS 6.2/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.2/10AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Mar 1, 2013
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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