Security Advisory

CVE-2011-2905

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-01 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 23:15:31
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the perf_config function in tools/perf/util/config.c in perf, as distributed in the Linux kernel before 3.1, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted config file in the current working directory.