Published: 21/06/2012 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 365

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

drivers/acpi/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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/* * american-sign-languagec * * Linux Kernel < 2637-rc2 ACPI custom_method Privilege Escalation * Jon Oberheide <jon@oberheideorg> * jonoberheideorg * * Information: * * cvemitreorg/cgi-bin/cvenamecgi?name=CVE-2010-4347 * * This custom_method file allows to inject custom ACPI methods into the ACPI * ...

CWE-264 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680841 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15774/

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