National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2208

Overview

Integer signedness error in the osf_getdomainname function in arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4 on the Alpha platform allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted call.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110615 Re: CVE request: kernel: alpha: fix several security issues

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/7

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4

Hyperlink:http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4