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CVE-2011-2905

CVE-2011-2905

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72eahttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729808https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72eahttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/09/6