CVE-2011-1021

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 2
Modified
Published: 21 Jun 2012, 23:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 22:14

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
24/100
CVSS Score
3.6 LOW
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.11% LOW
0% probability -0.06%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

21 Jun 2012, 23:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 22:14
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 3.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.11%• Percentile: 29%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

    Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 2.6.9 | 2.6.9:rc1 | 2.6.9:rc2 | 2.6.9:rc3 | 2.6.9:rc4

References (5)