CVE-2010-3078

Description

The xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr function in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an ioctl call.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630804

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43022

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

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/07/12

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/07/1

http://securitytracker.com/id?1024418

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

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

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html

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

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a122eb2fdfd78b58c6dd992d6f4b1aaef667eef9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3