CVE-2011-1021

NameCVE-2011-1021
Descriptiondrivers/acpi/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to modify arbitrary kernel memory locations by leveraging root privileges to write to the /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method file. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4347.
SourceCVE (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.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linux-2.6sourcelenny(not affected)
linux-2.6sourcesqueeze(not affected)
linux-2.6sourcewheezy(not affected)
linux-2.6source(unstable)2.6.37-1

Notes

[wheezy] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 2.6.33)
[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 2.6.33)
[lenny] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 2.6.33)
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