CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2518
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The tomoyo_mount_acl function in security/tomoyo/mount.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 calls the kern_path function with arguments taken directly from a mount system call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a NULL value for the device name.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.39.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.2 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4e78c724d47e2342aa8fde61f6b8536f662f795f git.kernel.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/01/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4e78c724d47e2342aa8fde61f6b8536f662f795f Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.2 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4e78c724d47e2342aa8fde61f6b8536f662f795f git.kernel.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/01/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4e78c724d47e2342aa8fde61f6b8536f662f795f Patch, Third Party Advisory