CVE-2011-2480

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Information Disclosure vulnerability in the 802.11 stack, as used in FreeBSD before 8.2 and NetBSD when using certain non-x86 architectures. A signedness error in the IEEE80211_IOC_CHANINFO ioctl allows a local unprivileged user to cause the kernel to copy large amounts of kernel memory back to the user, disclosing potentially sensitive information.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 27, 2019
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2011-2480: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix