CVE - CVE-2010-3477

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-3477	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The tcf_act_police_dump function in net/sched/act_police.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors involving a dump operation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-2942.
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/1/520102/100/0/threaded CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f04cfd098fb81fded74e78ea1a1b86cc6c6c31e CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc4 CONFIRM:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html DEBIAN:DSA-2126 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 REDHAT:RHSA-2010:0779 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0779.html REDHAT:RHSA-2010:0839 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.html REDHAT:RHSA-2011:0007 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html SECTRACK:1024603 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024603 SECUNIA:42890 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 SECUNIA:46397 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 UBUNTU:USN-1000-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20100921	Disclaimer: The record 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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Assigned (20100921)
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