CVE-2009-3612
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 19, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 9, 2009
Description
The tcf_fill_node function in net/sched/cls_api.c in the netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.32-rc5, and 2.4.37.6 and earlier, does not initialize a certain tcm__pad2 structure member, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-4881.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad61df918c44316940404891d5082c63e79c256a
- http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/35412/
- RHSA-2009:1540vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2009:061vendor-advisory
- USN-864-1vendor-advisory
- 38794third-party-advisory
- [security-announce] 20100303 VMSA-2010-0004 ESX Service Console and vMA third party updatesmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20091014 CVE request kernel: tcf_fill_node() infoleak due to typo in 9ef1d4c7mailing-list
- MDVSA-2009:329vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2010:012vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20091014 Re: CVE request kernel: tcf_fill_node() infoleak due to typo in 9ef1d4c7mailing-list
- 37909third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2009:1670vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2009:064vendor-advisory
- 38834third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20091014 Re: CVE request: kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leakmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20091015 Re: CVE request kernel: tcf_fill_node() infoleak due to typo in 9ef1d4c7mailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528868
- 37086third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10395vdb-entrysignature
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7557vdb-entrysignature
- FEDORA-2009-11038vendor-advisory
- ADV-2010-0528vdb-entry
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