Bluetooth Subsystem Information Disclosure Vulnerability

CVE-2011-2492 · LOW Severity

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

The bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc4 does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted getsockopt system call, related to (1) the l2cap_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c and (2) the rfcomm_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c.

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