CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2492
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-07-28
- 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-200
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.0)
• linux linux kernel 3.0
• redhat enterprise linux aus 5.6
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux eus 5.6
• redhat enterprise linux server 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8d03e971cf403305217b8e62db3a2e5ad2d6263f git.kernel.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/12909 Broken Link
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025778 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc4 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703019 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8d03e971cf403305217b8e62db3a2e5ad2d6263f git.kernel.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/12909 Broken Link
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025778 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc4 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703019 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory