| Name | CVE-2011-1019 |
| Description | The dev_load function in net/core/dev.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows local users to bypass an intended CAP_SYS_MODULE capability requirement and load arbitrary modules by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux-2.6 | source | lenny | (not affected) | | | |
| linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | 2.6.38-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
[lenny] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 2.6.32)
We won't fix this for Squeeze. This only applies to non-standard setups with fine
grained security capability models, and an attacker can only load modules from
/lib/modules, which is only writable with root privs