CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1160
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The tpm_open function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.38.8)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.2
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.3
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.38.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/13 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684671 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b Exploit, Patch
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/13 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684671 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b Exploit, Patch