CVE-2010-3875

Description

The ax25_getname function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a copy of this structure.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649713

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44630

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:051

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/5

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/02/7

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128854507120898&w=2

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3