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CVE-2011-1162

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1162 describes a memory clearing vulnerability in the tpm_read function of the Linux kernel 2.6, allowing local users to potentially access residual data from previous Trusted Platform Module (TPM) commands. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access is required for a partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.32-131.21.1.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.9-rt31.79.el6rt
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-1162Low

kernel: tpm: infoleak

Mar 8, 2011

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
securityfocus.com / bid/50764