Published: 29/11/2010 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 170

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The USB subsystem in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to TIOCGICOUNT ioctl calls, and the (1) mos7720_ioctl function in drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c and (2) mos7840_ioctl function in drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c.

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debian debian linux 5.0

Multiple kernel flaws ...

CWE-200 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648659 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/392 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45074 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a0846f1868b11cd827bdfeaf4527d8b1b1c0b098 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1072-1/

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