Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.36.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006177
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2010

CVE-2010-3881  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.36.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via read operations on the /dev/kvm device.

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