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...

CVE-2011-1021

The CVE-2011-1021 entry describes a local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel caused by the ACPI debugfs interface. Vulnerable component: drivers/acpi/debugfs.c. Affected software: Linux kernel versions before 3.0. Root-level access is required to write to /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_metho...