Information disclosure in Linux Kernel

CVE-2011-1160

The tpm_open function in drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not initialize a certain buffer, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.005 (38.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.