Security Advisory

CVE-2013-0268

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-02-18 02:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 14:18:09
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The msr_open function in arch/x86/kernel/msr.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.6 allows local users to bypass intended capability restrictions by executing a crafted application as root, as demonstrated by msr32.c.