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 Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

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

Updated: 2016-08-19T15:57:01

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


Link: CVE-2011-2492

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2023-02-13T01:19:49.227


Link: CVE-2011-2492

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