CVE-2011-1160 (GCVE-0-2011-1160)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-21 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
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Summary
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.
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