CVE-2007-1865

CVE-2007-1865 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The ipv6_getsockopt_sticky function in the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Beta 5.1.0 allows local users to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents) via a negative value of the len parameter. NOTE: this issue has been disputed in a bug comment, stating that "len is ignored when copying header info to the user's buffer.

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