CVE-2011-1021

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/custommethod file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4347...

Linux Kernel 2.6.36-rc8 - 'RDS Protocol' Local Privilege Escalation

// source: http://www.vsecurity.com/resources/advisory/20101019-1/ / Linux Kernel Copyright 2010 Virtual Security Research, LLC The handling functions for sending and receiving RDS messages use unchecked copyuserinatomic functions without any access checks on user-provided pointers. As a result, ...