CVE-2011-2905: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.0.68; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …

Published 2013-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.