{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2011-02-24T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: CAP_SYS_MODULE bypass via CAP_NET_ADMIN",
    "id" : "680360",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680360"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "1.5",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 as they did not backport the upstream commit a8f80e8f that introduced this flaw. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0498.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0500.html.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov (Openwall) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2011-05-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0500",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.9-rt31.64.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-05-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0498",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.29.1.el6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1019\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1019" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-1019",
  "csaw" : false
}