CVE-2011-1020
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 0.9%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDFeb 28
1st PoCJan 17
exploitation probability
0.9%top 43% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
The proc filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.37 and earlier does not restrict access to the /proc directory tree of a process after this process performs an exec of a setuid program, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service via open, lseek, read, and write system calls.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1
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References
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/24/18http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/25/2http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jan/421http://secunia.com/advisories/43496http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8107https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65693https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/10/21https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/368https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/404https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/414https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/466https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/474