CVE - CVE-2010-4074

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-4074	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The USB subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to TIOCGICOUNT ioctl calls, and the (1) mos7720_ioctl function in drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c and (2) mos7840_ioctl function in drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c.
References
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MLIST:[linux-kernel] 20100915 [PATCH] drivers/usb/serial/mos*: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory URL:http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/392 MLIST:[oss-security] 20100925 CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2 MLIST:[oss-security] 20101006 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1 MLIST:[oss-security] 20101006 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6 MLIST:[oss-security] 20101025 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3 CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a0846f1868b11cd827bdfeaf4527d8b1b1c0b098 CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc5 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648659 DEBIAN:DSA-2126 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 REDHAT:RHSA-2010:0958 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html REDHAT:RHSA-2011:0007 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html BID:45074 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45074 SECUNIA:42890 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/42890
Assigning CNA
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Date Entry Created
20101025	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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Assigned (20101025)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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