CVE-2010-3477
LOW severity · CVSS 2.1 · CWE-399
2.1CVSS LOW
Summary
The tcf_act_police_dump function in net/sched/act_police.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors involving a dump operation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-2942.
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 (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0f04cfd098fb81fded74e78ea1a1b86cc6c6c31e
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc4Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0779.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.htmlAdvisory