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CVE-2011-2492
high
Description
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 l2cap_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c and (2) the rfcomm_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703019
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/24/2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025778
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html