CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2955
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-193
Description
The cfg80211_wext_giwessid function in net/wireless/wext-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to leverage an off-by-one error in the ioctl_standard_iw_point function in net/wireless/wext-core.c, and obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory, via vectors involving an SIOCGIWESSID ioctl call that specifies a large buffer size.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.36
• opensuse opensuse 11.1
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise real time extension 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
References
- http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2290 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=42da2f948d949efd0111309f5827bf0298bcc9a4 git.kernel.org
- http://grsecurity.net/~spender/wireless-infoleak-fix2.patch Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/413 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/127 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/146 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/351 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41245 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831.bz2 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/31/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0771.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42885 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628434 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2290 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=42da2f948d949efd0111309f5827bf0298bcc9a4 git.kernel.org
- http://grsecurity.net/~spender/wireless-infoleak-fix2.patch Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/413 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/127 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/146 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/351 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41245 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831.bz2 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/31/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0771.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42885 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628434 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory