ubuntu · CVE-2011-1006

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Priority: medium Published: 2011-03-22 17:55:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-04 19:23:59 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-1006 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libcgroup), 21 status rows across 21 suites (artful, bionic, dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 14, not-affected 3, DNE 2, released 2.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_cgroup_spec function in tools/tools-common.c in the Control Group Configuration Library (aka libcgroup or libcg) before 0.37.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted controller list on the command line of an application. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries.

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