CVE-2011-0463 (GCVE-0-2011-0463)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-04-10 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:51
VLAI
Summary
The ocfs2_prepare_page_for_write function in fs/ocfs2/aops.c in the Oracle Cluster File System 2 (OCFS2) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc1 does not properly handle holes that cross page boundaries, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from uninitialized disk locations by reading a file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2011-02-17 00:00
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