{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2011-06-24T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: bluetooth: buffer overflow in l2cap config request",
    "id" : "716805",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716805"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "8.3",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-191",
  "details" : [ "Integer underflow in the l2cap_config_req function in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small command-size value within the command header of a Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) configuration request, leading to a buffer overflow." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 as they did not backport the upstream commit 5dee9e7c that introduced this issue. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1189.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 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-08-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1189",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-131.12.1.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 Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2497\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2497" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-2497",
  "csaw" : false
}