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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-11884: kernel: sensitive information disclosure from kernel stack memory via HIDPCONNADD command

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-11884: kernel: sensitive information disclosure from kernel stack memory via HIDPCONNADD command

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/10/2019
Created
12/30/2020
Added
12/29/2020
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

The do_hidp_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.15 allows a local user to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, because a name field may not end with a '\0' character.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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