PT-2010-5430

CVE-2010-4347

Published

2010-12-22

Updated

2023-02-13

Description by

CVSS 2.0

6.9

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36.2

Description The issue concerns the ACPI subsystem in the Linux kernel, where the debugfs custom method file has 0222 permissions, allowing local users to gain privileges. This is related to the acpi debugfs init function in drivers/acpi/debugfs.c. The problem can be exploited by placing a custom ACPI method in the ACPI interpreter tables.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36.2, update to version 2.6.36.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Dave Jones

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

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