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CVE-2011-1160

CVE-2011-1160

EPSS 0.5%
The tpm_open function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors.
Affected products
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References
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076bhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684671https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076bhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/13