CVEs-PoC/2011/CVE-2011-2707.md

CVE-2011-2707

Description

The ptrace_setxregs function in arch/xtensa/kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not validate user-space pointers, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory locations via a crafted PTRACE_SETXTREGS request.

POC

Reference

• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1

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