CVE-2011-1160

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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

Linux kernel: through 2.6.38.8; 2.6.38, 2.6.38-rc1, 2.6.38-rc2, 2.6.38-rc3, 2.6.38-rc4, 2.6.38-rc5 (+10)

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684671
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684671
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1309d7afbed112f0e8e90be9af975550caa0076b

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