CVE-2011-0711

medium

Description

The xfs_fs_geometry function in fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc6-git3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl call.

References

Advisories
More

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677260

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46417

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0927.html

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/16/4

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/16/10

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/555461/

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3a3675b7f23f83ca8c67c9c2b6edf707fd28d1ba

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-03-01

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00055