CVE-2010-2942

Description

The actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members when performing dump operations, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors related to (1) the tcf_gact_dump function in net/sched/act_gact.c, (2) the tcf_mirred_dump function in net/sched/act_mirred.c, (3) the tcf_nat_dump function in net/sched/act_nat.c, (4) the tcf_simp_dump function in net/sched/act_simple.c, and (5) the tcf_skbedit_dump function in net/sched/act_skbedit.c.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624903

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42529

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/18/1

http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113326

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/61857/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00004.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1c40be12f7d8ca1d387510d39787b12e512a7ce8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3