CVE-2009-0676

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.7%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDFeb 22

1st PoCFeb 20

exploitation probability

0.7%top 50% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The sock_getsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via an SO_BSDCOMPAT getsockopt request.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/32805

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=df0bca049d01c0ee94afb7cd5dfd959541e6c8da http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00001.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/12/123 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123540732700371&w=2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/20/1 http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6816/http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0459.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486305 http://secunia.com/advisories/33758 http://secunia.com/advisories/34394