CVE-2011-1495 Information

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.

Reference

http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/5/327 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/05/32 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/06/2 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47185 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694021 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/688021/