CVE - CVE-2010-2942

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-2942	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings
Description
The actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members when performing dump operations, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors related to (1) the tcf_gact_dump function in net/sched/act_gact.c, (2) the tcf_mirred_dump function in net/sched/act_mirred.c, (3) the tcf_nat_dump function in net/sched/act_nat.c, (4) the tcf_simp_dump function in net/sched/act_simple.c, and (5) the tcf_skbedit_dump function in net/sched/act_skbedit.c.
References
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BUGTRAQ:20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded MLIST:[oss-security] 20100818 CVE request - kernel: net sched memleak URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/18/1 MLIST:[oss-security] 20100819 Re: CVE request - kernel: net sched memleak URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/19/4 CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1c40be12f7d8ca1d387510d39787b12e512a7ce8 CONFIRM:http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/61857/ CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc2 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624903 CONFIRM:http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100113326 CONFIRM:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html REDHAT:RHSA-2010:0723 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0723.html REDHAT:RHSA-2010:0771 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0771.html REDHAT:RHSA-2010:0779 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0779.html SUSE:SUSE-SA:2010:041 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00005.html SUSE:SUSE-SA:2010:040 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00004.html SUSE:SUSE-SA:2010:060 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html SUSE:SUSE-SA:2010:054 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html SUSE:SUSE-SA:2011:007 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html UBUNTU:USN-1000-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 BID:42529 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42529 SECUNIA:41512 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/41512 SECUNIA:46397 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 VUPEN:ADV-2010-2430 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2430 VUPEN:ADV-2011-0298 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298
Date Entry Created
20100804	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE-ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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CVE-2010-2942