CVE

Id
50404  
CVE No.
CVE-2011-2492  
Status
Candidate  
Description
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20110615)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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