Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.36)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006261
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Sept 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Sep 2010

CVE-2010-3296  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.36 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The cxgb_extension_ioctl function in drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a CHELSIO_GET_QSET_NUM ioctl call.

CVSS Base Scores

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