CVE-2010-4347: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ACPI subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 uses 0222 permissions for the debugfs custom_method file, which allows local users to gain privileges by placing a custom ACPI method in the ACPI interpreter tables, related to the acpi_debugfs_init function in drivers/acpi/debugfs.c.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.36.2 (fixed in 2.6.36.2)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.3 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: version 11 only

Published 2010-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.