CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4074
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-11-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The USB subsystem in the Linux kernel before 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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.36
• debian debian linux 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a0846f1868b11cd827bdfeaf4527d8b1b1c0b098 git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/392 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc5 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45074 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648659 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a0846f1868b11cd827bdfeaf4527d8b1b1c0b098 git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/392 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc5 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45074 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648659 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory