Security Advisory

CVE-2011-0711

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-03-01 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 21:58:26
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.