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CVE-2011-2905

by Fred · 01/03/2013

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.

Date published : 2013-03-01

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1

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