FKIE_CVE-2011-2492
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-07-28 22:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:31
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 3.0 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 3.0 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 3.0 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 3.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_aus | 5.6 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop | 5.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_eus | 5.6 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_server | 5.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_workstation | 5.0 |
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