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CVE-2010-4525 (GCVE-0-2010-4525)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-11 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:51
VLAI
Summary
Linux kernel 2.6.33 and 2.6.34.y does not initialize the kvm_vcpu_events->interrupt.pad structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2011-01-05 00:00
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