Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.37)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004659
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Jan 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jan 2011

CVE-2010-3875  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.37 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The ax25_getname function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a copy of this structure.

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