CVE-2010-4073
LOW severity · CVSS 1.9 · Information disclosure
1.9CVSS LOW
Summary
The ipc subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the (1) compat_sys_semctl, (2) compat_sys_msgctl, and (3) compat_sys_shmctl functions in ipc/compat.c; and the (4) compat_sys_mq_open and (5) compat_sys_mq_getsetattr functions in ipc/compat_mq.c.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)2%
AV:L/AC:M/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.
Official patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/6/492 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/6/492Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=03145beb455cf5c20a761e8451e30b8a74ba58d9
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42778Advisory