Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Linux Kernel HIDP Sock IOCTL Function

Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Linux Kernel HIDP Sock IOCTL Function

CVE-2019-11884 · LOW Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

The do_hidp_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.15 allows a local user to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, because a name field may not end with a '\0' character.

Learn more about our Cis Benchmark Audit For Distribution Independent Linux.