Security Advisory

CVE-2010-3876

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-01-03 19:26:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:26:12
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW capability to read copies of the applicable structures.