Security Advisory

CVE-2011-2492

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-07-28 22:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 23:00:34

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

The bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc4 does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted getsockopt system call, related to (1) the l2cap_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c and (2) the rfcomm_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c.

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