CVE-2011-2211

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-13 10:24:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-06-13 16:15:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.39

2.6.39

Linux Kernel 2.6.39 Release Candidate 1

2.6.39

Linux Kernel 2.6.39 Release Candidate 2

2.6.39

Linux Kernel 2.6.39 Release Candidate 3

2.6.39

Linux Kernel 2.6.39 Release Candidate 4

2.6.39

Linux Kernel 2.6.39 Release Candidate 5

2.6.39

Linux Kernel 2.6.39 release candidate 6

2.6.39

Linux Kernel 2.6.39 release candidate 7

2.6.39

Linux Kernel 2.6.39.1

2.6.39.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.39.2

2.6.39.2

Linux Kernel

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f

Patch

[oss-security] 20110615 Re: CVE request: kernel: alpha: fix several security issues

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f

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