CVE-2011-2492

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.

Date published : 2011-07-28

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8d03e971cf403305217b8e62db3a2e5ad2d6263f

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc4