CVE-2011-1495 Memory corruption in n/a
Local attackers can exploit missing validation in the mpt2sas driver to corrupt memory, leading to privilege escalation, denial of service, or information disclosure.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2011-1495?
CVE-2011-1495 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 May 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_ctl.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.38 and earlier does not validate (1) length and (2) offset values before performing memory copy operations, which might allow local users to gain privileges, cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted ioctl call, related to the _ctl_do_mpt_command and _ctl_diag_read_buffer functions.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1495?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2011-1495?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2011-1495 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1495 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r25p-8mfp-2hwq.