kernel: privilege escalation
| Package(s): | kernel | CVE #(s): | CVE-2011-1169 | ||||||||||||||||
| Created: | June 28, 2011 | Updated: | August 9, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Ubuntu advisory:
Dan Rosenberg discovered that some ALSA drivers did not correctly check the adapter index during ioctl calls. If this driver was loaded, a local attacker could make a specially crafted ioctl call to gain root privileges. | ||||||||||||||||||
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