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CVE-2010-4655

CVE-2010-4655

EPSS 0.4%
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 products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/5http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/28/1https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428http://secunia.com/advisories/46397https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/297http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45972