Published: 18/07/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 188

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

net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.36 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an ethtool ioctl call.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2010-2524 David Howells reported an issue in the Common Internet File System (CIFS) Local users could cause ...

Multiple kernel flaws ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

An attacker could send crafted input to the kernel and cause it to crash ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Multiple flaws fixed in the Linux kernel ...

Multiple security flaws in Linux kernel ...

Ubuntu Security Notice 1202-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that several network ioctls did not clear kernel memory correctly A local user could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy Brad Spengler discovered that stack memory for new a process was not correctly calculated A local attacker could exploit this to crash ...

CWE-665 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9 https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/297 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45972 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/28/1 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2264 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1083-1/

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