CVE-2011-3619

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-06-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The apparmor_setprocattr function in security/apparmor/lsm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not properly handle invalid parameters, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to a /proc/#####/attr/current file.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.0; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5b2c5b2ad5853591a6cac6134cd0f599a720865
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/17/6
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a5b2c5b2ad5853591a6cac6134cd0f599a720865
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5b2c5b2ad5853591a6cac6134cd0f599a720865
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/17/6
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a5b2c5b2ad5853591a6cac6134cd0f599a720865

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