CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4655
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-07-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-665
Description
net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• vmware esx 4.0
• vmware esx 4.1
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/28/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45972 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/297 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/28/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45972 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/297 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory