CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1060

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2013-09-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-09-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

A certain Ubuntu build procedure for perf, as distributed in the Linux kernel packages in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 12.10, 13.04, and 13.10, sets the HOME environment variable to the ~buildd directory and consequently reads the system configuration file from the ~buildd directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging control over the buildd account.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 13.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 13.10

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References