National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2517

Overview

Multiple buffer overflows in net/wireless/nl80211.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability during scan operations with a long SSID value.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/208c72f4fe44fe09577e7975ba0e7fa0278f3d03

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/208c72f4fe44fe09577e7975ba0e7fa0278f3d03

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718152

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718152

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110701 Re: CVE request: kernel: nl80211: missing check for valid SSID size in scan operations

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/01/4

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=208c72f4fe44fe09577e7975ba0e7fa0278f3d03

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=208c72f4fe44fe09577e7975ba0e7fa0278f3d03

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.2

Hyperlink:http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.2