Security Advisory
CVE-2011-2480
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
Information Disclosure vulnerability in the 802.11 stack, as used in FreeBSD before 8.2 and NetBSD when using certain non-x86 architectures. A signedness error in the IEEE80211_IOC_CHANINFO ioctl allows a local unprivileged user to cause the kernel to copy large amounts of kernel memory back to the user, disclosing potentially sensitive information.
Published Date
November 27, 2019
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory