ghsa-c9rp-95rg-526v
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:23
Modified
2022-05-13 01:23
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2010-4655"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-665"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2011-07-18T19:55:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-c9rp-95rg-526v",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:23:31Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:23:31Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4655"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/297"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/28/1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/46397"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45972"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html"
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    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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