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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4914

Original release date:06/21/2012

Last revised:06/22/2012

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The ROSE protocol implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not verify that certain data-length values are consistent with the amount of data sent, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted data to a ROSE socket.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.4 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 4.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0bccd315db0c2f919e7fcf9cb60db21d9986f52

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e0bccd315db0c2f919e7fcf9cb60db21d9986f52

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770777

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770777

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20111227 Re: CVE request: kernel: multiple issues in ROSE

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/28/2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e0bccd315db0c2f919e7fcf9cb60db21d9986f52