CVE-2010-3296
LOW severity · CVSS 2.1 · Information disclosure
2.1CVSS LOW
Summary
The cxgb_extension_ioctl function in drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a CHELSIO_GET_QSET_NUM ioctl call.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/11/170 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/11/170Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=49c37c0334a9b85d30ab3d6b5d1acb05ef2ef6de
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41440Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42758Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42884Advisory