CVE-2011-2492 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 0.05% · 17.3th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.05%
17.3th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-mako0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-manta0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-maguro0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-goldfish0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-flo0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-grouper0, 3.1.10-6.25, 3.1.10-7.27

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