Information Disclosure Vulnerability in osf_getsysinfo Function

CVE-2011-2210 · LOW Severity

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

The osf_getsysinfo function in arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4 on the Alpha platform does not properly restrict the data size for GSI_GET_HWRPB operations, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted call.

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