CVE-2011-2905

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.

CVSS Metrics

• v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.2AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.23%• Percentile: 46%

Affected Systems

• linux•linux_kernel

  ≤ 3.0.68 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.6 | 3.0.7 | 3.0.8 | 3.0.9 | 3.0.10 | 3.0.11 | 3.0.12 | 3.0.13 | 3.0.14 | 3.0.15 | 3.0.16 | 3.0.17 | 3.0.18 | 3.0.19 | 3.0.20 | 3.0.21 | 3.0.22 | 3.0.23 | 3.0.24 | 3.0.25 | 3.0.26 | 3.0.27 | 3.0.28 | 3.0.29 | 3.0.30 | 3.0.31 | 3.0.32 | 3.0.33 | 3.0.34 | 3.0.35 | 3.0.36 | 3.0.37 | 3.0.38 | 3.0.39 | 3.0.40 | 3.0.41 | 3.0.42 | 3.0.43 | 3.0.44 | 3.0.45 | 3.0.46 | 3.0.47 | 3.0.48 | 3.0.49 | 3.0.50 | 3.0.51 | 3.0.52 | 3.0.53 | 3.0.54 | 3.0.55 | 3.0.56 | 3.0.57 | 3.0.58 | 3.0.59 | 3.0.60 | 3.0.61 | 3.0.62 | 3.0.63 | 3.0.64 | 3.0.65 | 3.0.66 | 3.0.67

References (5)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729808
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/09/6