CVE-2011-2210 Information

Description

The osf_getsysinfo function in arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4 on the Alpha platform does not properly restrict the data size for GSI_GET_HWRPB operations which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted call.

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/7 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f