CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2211
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The osf_wait4 function in arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4 on the Alpha platform uses an incorrect pointer, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing a certain integer value to kernel memory.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.39.3)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/7 www.openwall.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f Exploit, Patch
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/7 www.openwall.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f Exploit, Patch