Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4083

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-11-30 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:34:37
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The copy_semid_to_user function in ipc/sem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) IPC_INFO, (2) SEM_INFO, (3) IPC_STAT, or (4) SEM_STAT command in a semctl system call.