CVE-2007-1865 (GCVE-0-2007-1865)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-18 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:13 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
The ipv6_getsockopt_sticky function in the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Beta 5.1.0 allows local users to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents) via a negative value of the len parameter. NOTE: this issue has been disputed in a bug comment, stating that "len is ignored when copying header info to the user's buffer.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232045 x_refsource_MISC
http://osvdb.org/45909 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2007-03-09 00:00
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