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CVE-2011-2480
high
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.
References
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/20/15
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2480