CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 3.6
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: drivers/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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): NONE/PARTIAL/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2012-06-21
Last Modified Date: 2012-06-22