Published: 21/06/2012 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 170

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The sco_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via the SCO_CONNINFO option.

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Synopsis Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs arenow available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impa ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2010-3875 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the Linux implementation of the Amateur Radio AX25 Level 2 protocol Local u ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2010-2524 David Howells reported an issue in the Common Internet File System (CIFS) Local users could cause ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

Multiple kernel flaws were fixed ...

Multiple kernel vulnerabilities have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel vulnerabilities have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Ubuntu Security Notice 1202-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated A local attacker could exploit this to crash ...

CWE-200 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/10 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681259 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4c896e1471aec3b004a693c689f60be3b17ac86 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1156.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c4c896e1471aec3b004a693c689f60be3b17ac86 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1156 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1204-1/https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2240

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