{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2011-06-07T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: af_packet: infoleak",
    "id" : "728023",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728023"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "1.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.3 does not properly restrict user-space access to certain packet data structures associated with VLAN Tag Control Information, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information via a crafted application." ],
  "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 393e52e3 that introduced this flaw. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1350.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-10-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1350",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-131.17.1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2012-01-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0010",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.9-rt31.79.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-2011-2898\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2898" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-2898",
  "csaw" : false
}