ubuntu · CVE-2011-2480

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Priority: low Published: 2019-11-27 19:15:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 20:13:22 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2011-2480 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kfreebsd-8), 10 status rows across 10 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, upstream): DNE 7, ignored 2, released 1.

Description:

Information Disclosure vulnerability in the 802.11 stack, as used in FreeBSD before 8.2 and NetBSD when using certain non-x86 architectures. A signedness error in the IEEE80211_IOC_CHANINFO ioctl allows a local unprivileged user to cause the kernel to copy large amounts of kernel memory back to the user, disclosing potentially sensitive information.

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