CVE-2010-2955
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-09-08 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 02:55
Severity ?
Summary
The cfg80211_wext_giwessid function in net/wireless/wext-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to leverage an off-by-one error in the ioctl_standard_iw_point function in net/wireless/wext-core.c, and obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory, via vectors involving an SIOCGIWESSID ioctl call that specifies a large buffer size.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2290Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=42da2f948d949efd0111309f5827bf0298bcc9a4
secalert@redhat.comhttp://grsecurity.net/~spender/wireless-infoleak-fix2.patchBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/413Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/127Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/146Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/351Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/41245Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831.bz2Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/31/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0771.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42885Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628434Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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