Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel packages is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. It is due to instances of unsafe sprintf use were found in the Linux kernel Bluetooth implementation. Creating a large number of Bluetooth L2CAP, SCO, or RFCOMM sockets could result in arbitrary memory pages being overwritten. A local,...

kernel: bluetooth: l2cap and rfcomm: fix 1 byte infoleak to userspace

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 l2capsockgetsockoptold function in...