CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2210

Published: Jun 13, 2012 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The osf_getsysinfo function in arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4 on the Alpha platform does not properly restrict the data size for GSI_GET_HWRPB operations, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted call.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 2.6.39.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 (including) 2.6.39 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39-rc1 (including) 2.6.39-rc1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39-rc2 (including) 2.6.39-rc2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39-rc3 (including) 2.6.39-rc3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39-rc4 (including) 2.6.39-rc4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39-rc5 (including) 2.6.39-rc5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39-rc6 (including) 2.6.39-rc6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39-rc7 (including) 2.6.39-rc7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39.1 (including) 2.6.39.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39.2 (including) 2.6.39.2 (including)

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