CVE-2011-2480

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2011-2480
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-11-27T19:15:11
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-12-10T18:31:42
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-200 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 8.2
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:-:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2480 Third Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/20/15 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631161 Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631160 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2480 Broken Link
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2480
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2480
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:58:07 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 07:09:28 2019-11-27T19:15Z 2019-11-27T19:15:11 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 07:09:28 2019-12-10T18:31:42 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 07:09:28 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated