PT-2013-1401 · Linux+1 · Linux Kernel+1

Christian Ohm · Published 2011-11-22 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2011-2905

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.2

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.1

Description The issue is related to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the perf config function. This vulnerability allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by using a crafted config file in the current working directory.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.1, update to version 3.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-2905

DSA-2303-1

RHSA-2011:1465

RHSA-2011_1465

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

References · 7

• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-1465.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2905 · Security Note
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729808 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/09/6 · Note
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1 · Note