CVE-2010-4655
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 18, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 3, 2011
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- USN-1146-1vendor-advisory
- 45972vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20110124 CVE request: linux kernel heap issuesmailing-list
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20110125 Re: CVE request: linux kernel heap issuesmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20110124 Re: CVE request: linux kernel heap issuesmailing-list
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- [oss-security] 20110125 Re: CVE request: linux kernel heap issuesmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
- [oss-security] 20110128 Re: CVE request: linux kernel heap issuesmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428
- [linux-kernel] 20101007 [PATCH] net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actionsmailing-list
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