Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4075

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-11-29 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:34:37
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The uart_get_count function in drivers/serial/serial_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call.