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CVE-2011-2707
Published: May 24, 2012
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The ptrace_setxregs function in arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not validate user-space pointers, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory locations via a crafted PTRACE_SETXTREGS request.
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References
[oss-security] 20110720 Re: CVE request: kernel: arbitrary kernel read in xtensa
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
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