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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006467
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Jun 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Jun 2011

CVE-2011-1172  (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 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c in the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not place the expected '\0' 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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