CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2480
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
Information Disclosure vulnerability in the 802.11 stack, as used in FreeBSD before 8.2 and NetBSD when using certain non-x86 architectures. A signedness error in the IEEE80211_IOC_CHANINFO ioctl allows a local unprivileged user to cause the kernel to copy large amounts of kernel memory back to the user, disclosing potentially sensitive information.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd (< 8.2)
• netbsd netbsd
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2480 Broken Link
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631160 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631161 Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2480 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/20/15 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2480 Broken Link
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631160 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631161 Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2480 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/20/15 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory