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CVE-2011-2492 Detail

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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8d03e971cf403305217b8e62db3a2e5ad2d6263f CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/12909 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025778 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703019 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-2492
NVD Published Date:
07/28/2011
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.