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CVE Reference: CVE-2011-0711 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2011-0711 |
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Description: 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. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: OSVDB 70950 MLIST http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/16/10 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/16/4 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.38-rc6-git3.log http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3a3675b7f23f83ca8c67c9c2b6edf707fd28d1ba BID 46417 |
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