CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2503
3.7 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-07-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The insert_module function in runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c in the systemtap runtime tool (staprun) in SystemTap before 1.6 does not properly validate a module when loading it, which allows local users to gain privileges via a race condition between the signature validation and the module initialization.
Affected configurations
• systemtap systemtap (<= 1.5)
• systemtap systemtap 0.2.2
• systemtap systemtap 0.3
• systemtap systemtap 0.4
• systemtap systemtap 0.5
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.3
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.4
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.5
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.7
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.8
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.9
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.10
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.12
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.13
• systemtap systemtap 0.5.14
• systemtap systemtap 0.6
• systemtap systemtap 0.6.2
• systemtap systemtap 0.7
• systemtap systemtap 0.7.2
• systemtap systemtap 0.8
• systemtap systemtap 0.9
• systemtap systemtap 0.9.5
• systemtap systemtap 0.9.7
• systemtap systemtap 0.9.8
• systemtap systemtap 0.9.9
• systemtap systemtap 1.0
• systemtap systemtap 1.1
• systemtap systemtap 1.2
• systemtap systemtap 1.3
• systemtap systemtap 1.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45377 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46920 Vendor Advisory
- http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=NEWS%3Bhb=304d73b1fea24af791f2a129fb141c5009eae6a8 sources.redhat.com
- http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ed51cfa24ca27746ab09b59280b94117dd58cba3 sources.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2348 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2503 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45377 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46920 Vendor Advisory
- http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=NEWS%3Bhb=304d73b1fea24af791f2a129fb141c5009eae6a8 sources.redhat.com
- http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ed51cfa24ca27746ab09b59280b94117dd58cba3 sources.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2348 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-2503 bugzilla.redhat.com