CVE-2011-0711

Published: 01 March 2011

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.

From the Ubuntu security team

Dan Rosenberg discovered that XFS did not correctly initialize memory. A local attacker could make crafted ioctl calls to leak portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc8)







	Patches: Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a3675b7f23f83ca8c67c9c2b6edf707fd28d1ba Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=af24ee9ea8d532e16883251a6684dfa1be8eec29
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc8)







linux-fsl-imx51 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc8)







linux-lts-backport-maverick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc8)







linux-lts-backport-natty Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc8)







linux-mvl-dove Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc8)







linux-source-2.6.15 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc8)







linux-ti-omap4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc8)

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