CVE-2011-1079 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2011-1079?

CVE-2011-1079 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Jun 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The bnep_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/bnep/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not ensure that a certain device field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory, or cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash), via a BNEPCONNADD command.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1079?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1079?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2011-1079 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1079 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mx8q-gfm8-hjx3.