1.9 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists due to the structure padding in two structures in the Bluetooth implementation was not initialized properly before being copied to user-space, possibly allowing local, unprivileged users to leak kernel stack memory to user-space.
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8d03e971cf403305217b8e62db3a2e5ad2d6263f
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8d03e971cf403305217b8e62db3a2e5ad2d6263f
marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2
permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/12909
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html
securitytracker.com/id?1025778
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc4
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/2
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/3
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0927
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703019
docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.6_Technical_Notes/kernel.html#RHSA-2011-0927