CVE-2011-2480

Summary

CVECVE-2011-2480
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-27 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-12-10 18:31:00 UTC
DescriptionInformation Disclosure vulnerability in the 802.11 stack, as used in FreeBSD before 8.2 and NetBSD when using certain non-x86 architectures. A signedness error in the IEEE80211_IOC_CHANINFO ioctl allows a local unprivileged user to cause the kernel to copy large amounts of kernel memory back to the user, disclosing potentially sensitive information.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd - All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Broken Link
oss-security - Re: CVE request: FreeBSD/NetBSD 802.11 kernel memory disclosure MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
#631160 - kfreebsd-9: cve-2011-2480 info disclosure - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE-2011-2480 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
#631161 - kfreebsd-8: cve-2011-2480 info disclosure - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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