CVE-2011-0711

The xfs_fs_geometry function in fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl call.

Date published : 2011-03-01

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46417

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3a3675b7f23f83ca8c67c9c2b6edf707fd28d1ba