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Tracker / CVE-2011-0711

CVE-2011-0711

Low 2.1

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.38
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat enterprise_linux_server
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus
redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation

Analysis

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