{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2011-04-05T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: drivers/scsi/mpt2sas: prevent heap overflows",
    "id" : "694021",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694021"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "7.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-119",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat\nEnterprise Linux 4 as it did not provide support for MPT (Message Passing\nTechnology) based controllers. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html, and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html, and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1253.html.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-05-31T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0833",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-238.12.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-05-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0542",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-131.0.15.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 EUS - Server Only",
    "release_date" : "2011-06-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0883",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:6.0",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.31.1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2011-09-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1253",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.9-rt31.75.el6rt"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1494\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1494" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-1494",
  "csaw" : false
}