Description
net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW capability to read copies of the applicable structures.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42789 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/02/9 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/02/12 ↗
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.37-rc2 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/5 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=67286640f638f5ad41a946b9a3dc75327950248f ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/02/10 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649715 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128854507220908&w=2 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/02/7 ↗
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44630 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 ↗