CVE-2010-2942
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 21, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 4, 2010
Description
The actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members when performing dump operations, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors related to (1) the tcf_gact_dump function in net/sched/act_gact.c, (2) the tcf_mirred_dump function in net/sched/act_mirred.c, (3) the tcf_nat_dump function in net/sched/act_nat.c, (4) the tcf_simp_dump function in net/sched/act_simple.c, and (5) the tcf_skbedit_dump function in net/sched/act_skbedit.c.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624903
- RHSA-2010:0723vendor-advisory
- USN-1000-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2010:041vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2010:0771vendor-advisory
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1c40be12f7d8ca1d387510d39787b12e512a7ce8
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc2
- SUSE-SA:2010:040vendor-advisory
- ADV-2010-2430vdb-entry
- SUSE-SA:2011:007vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2010:060vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0298vdb-entry
- http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/61857/
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113326
- [oss-security] 20100818 CVE request - kernel: net sched memleakmailing-list
- 42529vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20100819 Re: CVE request - kernel: net sched memleakmailing-list
- SUSE-SA:2010:054vendor-advisory
- 41512third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2010:0779vendor-advisory
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