CVE-2011-2707

The ptrace_setxregs function in arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not validate user-space pointers, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory locations via a crafted PTRACE_SETXTREGS request.

Date published : 2012-05-24

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0d0138ebe24b94065580bd2601f8bb7eb6152f56

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1