CVE-2011-1494: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the _ctl_do_mpt_command function in drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_ctl.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.38 and earlier might allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an ioctl call specifying a crafted value that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.38; version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; …

Published 2011-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.