net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an ethtool ioctl call.
References
Information
Published : 2011-07-18 12:55
Updated : 2023-02-12 19:21
NVD link : CVE-2010-4655
Mitre link : CVE-2010-4655
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CWE
CWE-665
Improper Initialization
Products Affected
vmware
- esx
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
linux
- linux_kernel