National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2905
Original release date:03/01/2013
Last revised:03/04/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Description
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html
'CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path'
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729808
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110809 Re: CVE request: perf: may parse user-controlled config file
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea
