[kernel-sec-discuss] r2474 - dsa-texts

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at alioth.debian.org
Fri Sep 2 17:27:30 UTC 2011


Author: jmm
Date: 2011-09-02 17:27:29 +0000 (Fri, 02 Sep 2011)
New Revision: 2474

Modified:
   dsa-texts/2.6.32-35squeeze1
Log:
updates


Modified: dsa-texts/2.6.32-35squeeze1
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/2.6.32-35squeeze1	2011-09-02 17:22:16 UTC (rev 2473)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.32-35squeeze1	2011-09-02 17:27:29 UTC (rev 2474)
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@
 
 CVE-2011-2905 
 
-    foo
+    Christian Ohm discovered that the 'perf' analysis tool searches
+    for its config files in the current working directory. This could
+    lead to denial of service or potential privilege escalation if
+    a user with evelated privileges is tricked into running 'perf'
+    in a directory under the control of the attacker.
 
 CVE-2011-2909 
 




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