CVE-2011-1079

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-02-14
IAVA:
2012-A-0020
Bugzilla:
681260: CVE-2011-1079 kernel: bnep device field missing NULL terminator

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The bnep_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/bnep/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not ensure that a certain device field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory, or cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash), via a BNEPCONNADD command.

Find out more about CVE-2011-1079 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2011:0833 2011-05-31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (kernel) RHSA-2011:0498 2011-05-10
MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server (kernel-rt) RHSA-2011:0500 2011-05-10

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1 realtime-kernel Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel Will not fix

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