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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2011-07-28T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:00:34.100Z

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

Link: CVE-2011-2492

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-07-28T22:55:01.593

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:28:23.757

Link: CVE-2011-2492

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2011-05-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-2492 - Bugzilla