Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's do_devinfo_ioctl Function

CVE-2011-2909 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The do_devinfo_ioctl function in drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a copy of a short string.

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