CVE-2011-1079

CVE Details

Release Date:

2012-06-21

Description

The bnep_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/bnep/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not ensure that a certain device field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory, or cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash), via a BNEPCONNADD command.

See more information about CVE-2011-1079 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:		Base Metrics:
Access Vector:	Undefined	Attack Complexity:	Undefined
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Undefined
Integrity Impact:	Undefined	Availability Impact:	Undefined

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0833	2011-05-31
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2011-2015	2011-05-11
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0833	2011-05-31
Oracle Linux version 5 (ofa-2.6.32-100.28.15.el5)	ELSA-2011-2015	2011-05-11
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-238.12.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0833	2011-05-31
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0498	2011-05-10
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2011-2015	2011-05-11
Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2019-4685	2019-06-17

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