CVE-2011-2905 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/09/6 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729808 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aba8d056078e47350d85b06a9cabd5afcc4b72ea