CVE-2011-3619

high

Description

The apparmor_setprocattr function in security/apparmor/lsm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not properly handle invalid parameters, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to a /proc/#####/attr/current file.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/17/6

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5b2c5b2ad5853591a6cac6134cd0f599a720865

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-06-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High