CVE-2011-1079: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bnep_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/bnep/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not ensure that a certain device field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory, or cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash), via a BNEPCONNADD command.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.38.8; version 2.6.38 only; version 2.6.38.1 only; version 2.6.38.2 only; version 2.6.38.3 only; version 2.6.38.4 only; …

Published 2012-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.