CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4083

1.9 LOW Published 2010-11-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-11-30
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-909

Description

The copy_semid_to_user function in ipc/sem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) IPC_INFO, (2) SEM_INFO, (3) IPC_STAT, or (4) SEM_STAT command in a semctl system call.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36) • opensuse opensuse 11.3 • suse linux enterprise desktop 10 • suse linux enterprise desktop 11 • suse linux enterprise real time extension 11 • suse linux enterprise server 9 • suse linux enterprise server 10 • suse linux enterprise server 11 • suse linux enterprise software development kit 10 • debian debian linux 5.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-909 Missing Initialization of Resource weakness

References