CVE-2011-1078 - Unannounced Recover

Description

The sco_sock_getsockopt_old function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain structure which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via the SCO_CONNINFO option.

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/10 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c4c896e1471aec3b004a693c689f60be3b17ac86 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681259 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4c896e1471aec3b004a693c689f60be3b17ac86 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1156.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416