CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2905

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2013-03-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-03-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the perf_config function in tools/perf/util/config.c in perf, as distributed in the Linux kernel before 3.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted config file in the current working directory.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.0.68) • linux linux kernel 3.0.1 • linux linux kernel 3.0.2 • linux linux kernel 3.0.3 • linux linux kernel 3.0.4 • linux linux kernel 3.0.5 • linux linux kernel 3.0.6 • linux linux kernel 3.0.7 • linux linux kernel 3.0.8 • linux linux kernel 3.0.9 • linux linux kernel 3.0.10 • linux linux kernel 3.0.11 • linux linux kernel 3.0.12 • linux linux kernel 3.0.13 • linux linux kernel 3.0.14 • linux linux kernel 3.0.15 • linux linux kernel 3.0.16 • linux linux kernel 3.0.17 • linux linux kernel 3.0.18 • linux linux kernel 3.0.19 • linux linux kernel 3.0.20 • linux linux kernel 3.0.21 • linux linux kernel 3.0.22 • linux linux kernel 3.0.23 • linux linux kernel 3.0.24 • linux linux kernel 3.0.25 • linux linux kernel 3.0.26 • linux linux kernel 3.0.27 • linux linux kernel 3.0.28 • linux linux kernel 3.0.29 • linux linux kernel 3.0.30 • linux linux kernel 3.0.31 • linux linux kernel 3.0.32 • linux linux kernel 3.0.33 • linux linux kernel 3.0.34 • linux linux kernel 3.0.35 • linux linux kernel 3.0.36 • linux linux kernel 3.0.37 • linux linux kernel 3.0.38 • linux linux kernel 3.0.39 • linux linux kernel 3.0.40 • linux linux kernel 3.0.41 • linux linux kernel 3.0.42 • linux linux kernel 3.0.43 • linux linux kernel 3.0.44 • linux linux kernel 3.0.45 • linux linux kernel 3.0.46 • linux linux kernel 3.0.47 • linux linux kernel 3.0.48 • linux linux kernel 3.0.49 • linux linux kernel 3.0.50 • linux linux kernel 3.0.51 • linux linux kernel 3.0.52 • linux linux kernel 3.0.53 • linux linux kernel 3.0.54 • linux linux kernel 3.0.55 • linux linux kernel 3.0.56 • linux linux kernel 3.0.57 • linux linux kernel 3.0.58 • linux linux kernel 3.0.59 … and 8 more

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