CVE-2011-1172
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 22, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 3, 2011
Description
net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c in the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not place the expected '\0' character at the end of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to issue a crafted request, and then reading the argument to the resulting modprobe process.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20110318 CVE request: kernel: netfilter & econet infoleaksmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a8ab060779779de8aea92ce3337ca348f973f54
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689345
- [linux-kernel] 20110310 [PATCH] ipv6: netfilter: ip6_tables: fix infoleak to userspacemailing-list
- RHSA-2011:0833vendor-advisory
- http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416
- [oss-security] 20110321 Re: CVE request: kernel: netfilter & econet infoleaksmailing-list
- 8278third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20110321 Re: CVE request: kernel: netfilter & econet infoleaksmailing-list
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