CVE-2011-1171 in Kernelinfo

Summary

net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c in the IPv4 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.

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Reservation

03/03/2011

Disclosure

06/22/2011

CPE

ready

CVSS

4.0

EPSS

0.00085

Activities

Very Low

Sources

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