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

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 188

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

The tpm_open function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors.

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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 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684671 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/13 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2240 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1204-1/

CVE-2011-1160

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