Published: 28/07/2011 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 bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel prior to 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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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-2009-4067 Rafael Dominguez Vega of MWR InfoSecurity reported an issue in the auerswald module, a driver for ...

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-2011-1020 Kees Cook discovered an issue in the /proc filesystem that allows local users to gain access to sensitive process in ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws were 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://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/2 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/12909 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025778 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/3 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc4 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703019 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8d03e971cf403305217b8e62db3a2e5ad2d6263f https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2310 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1204-1/

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