Information Disclosure vulnerability in the 802.11 stack, as used in FreeBSD before 8.2 and NetBSD when using certain non-x86 architectures. A signedness error in the IEEE80211_IOC_CHANINFO ioctl allows a local unprivileged user to cause the kernel to copy large amounts of kernel memory back to the user, disclosing potentially sensitive information.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-2469 Information Disclosure vulnerability in the 802.11 stack, as used in FreeBSD before 8.2 and NetBSD when using certain non-x86 architectures. A signedness error in the IEEE80211_IOC_CHANINFO ioctl allows a local unprivileged user to cause the kernel to copy large amounts of kernel memory back to the user, disclosing potentially sensitive information.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:00:33.992Z

Reserved: 2011-06-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-2480

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-27T19:15:11.603

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:28:22.320

Link: CVE-2011-2480

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