CVE-2010-4655
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-07-18 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 03:51
Severity ?
Summary
net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an ethtool ioctl call.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/28/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/46397Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45972Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/297Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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