CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4347
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-12-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
The ACPI subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 uses 0222 permissions for the debugfs custom_method file, which allows local users to gain privileges by placing a custom ACPI method in the ACPI interpreter tables, related to the acpi_debugfs_init function in drivers/acpi/debugfs.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36.2)
• opensuse opensuse 11.3
• suse linux enterprise real time extension 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ed3aada1bf34c5a9e98af167f125f8a740fc726a git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/15/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/15/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15774/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45408 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663542 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64155 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ed3aada1bf34c5a9e98af167f125f8a740fc726a git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/15/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/15/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15774/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45408 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663542 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64155 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry