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.
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Information
Published : 2010-11-29 08:00
Updated : 2020-08-10 09:18
NVD link : CVE-2010-4074
Mitre link : CVE-2010-4074
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CWE
CWE-200
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
linux
- linux_kernel