fkie_cve-2011-1160
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2012-06-21 23:55
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
The tpm_open function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/13
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684671
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076bExploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/13
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684671
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076bExploit, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38.1
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38.2
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38.3
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38.4
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38.5
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38.6
linux linux_kernel 2.6.38.7


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