Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.39)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004625
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Jun 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jun 2012

CVE-2011-1160  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.39 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The tpm_open function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors.

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