Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1019

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-01 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 22:14:27
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The dev_load function in net/core/dev.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 allows local users to bypass an intended CAP_SYS_MODULE capability requirement and load arbitrary modules by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.