2.1 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.3%
net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c in the IPv6 implementation in the Linux
kernel before 2.6.39 does not place the expected โ\0โ character at the end
of string data in the values of certain structure members, which allows
local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory
by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to issue a crafted request, and
then reading the argument to the resulting modprobe process.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | linux | <ย 2.6.24-29.92 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 10.04 | noarch | linux | <ย 2.6.32-32.62 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | linux | <ย 2.6.35-30.52 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 11.04 | noarch | linux | <ย 2.6.38-9.43 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 10.04 | noarch | linux-ec2 | <ย 2.6.32-316.30 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 10.04 | noarch | linux-fsl-imx51 | <ย 2.6.31-610.27 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 10.04 | noarch | linux-lts-backport-maverick | <ย 2.6.35-30.54~lucid1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 10.04 | noarch | linux-mvl-dove | <ย 2.6.32-217.34 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | linux-mvl-dove | <ย 2.6.32-417.34 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 10.10 | noarch | linux-ti-omap4 | <ย 2.6.35-903.23 | UNKNOWN |
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2011-1172
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1172
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1172
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1141-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1159-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1160-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1162-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1167-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1186-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1187-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1202-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1204-1
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1212-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1172