Bug 505686 (CVE-2011-2909)

Summary:	Kernel: fix infoleak to userspace (CVE-2011-2909)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2014-03-25 12:10:30 UTC

CVE-2011-2909 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2909):

The do_devinfo_ioctl function in drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 
allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a copy of a short string.

Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-08-19 21:49:55 UTC

CVE-2011-2909 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2909):
  The do_devinfo_ioctl function in drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c in the
  Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive information
  from kernel memory via a copy of a short string.

Comment 2 Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-04-04 19:46:50 UTC

There are no longer any 2.x or <3.1 kernels available in the repository with
the exception of sys-kernel/xbox-sources which is unsupported by security.