VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2011-1021

CVSS score3.6 LOW
EPSS probability0.93%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-06-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

drivers/acpi/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to modify arbitrary kernel memory locations by leveraging root privileges to write to the /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4347.

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