CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-1865
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
The ipv6_getsockopt_sticky function in the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Beta 5.1.0 allows local users to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents) via a negative value of the len parameter. NOTE: this issue has been disputed in a bug comment, stating that "len is ignored when copying header info to the user's buffer.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise linux 5.1.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/45909 osvdb.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232045 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://osvdb.org/45909 osvdb.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232045 bugzilla.redhat.com