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CVE-2011-0711

Published: Mar 1, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The xfs_fs_geometry function in fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl call.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/555461/

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vendor-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677260

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[oss-security] 20110216 Re: CVE request - kernel: xfs infoleak

mailing-list

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3a3675b7f23f83ca8c67c9c2b6edf707fd28d1ba

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[oss-security] 20110216 CVE request - kernel: xfs infoleak

mailing-list

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vdb-entry

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.38-rc6-git3.log

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