CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1019
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-03-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
The dev_load function in net/core/dev.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows local users to bypass an intended CAP_SYS_MODULE capability requirement and load arbitrary modules by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.38)
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8909c9ad8ff03611c9c96c9a92656213e4bb495b git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680360 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8909c9ad8ff03611c9c96c9a92656213e4bb495b Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8909c9ad8ff03611c9c96c9a92656213e4bb495b git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680360 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8909c9ad8ff03611c9c96c9a92656213e4bb495b Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory