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Tracker / CVE-2009-3001

CVE-2009-3001

Medium 4.9

The llc_ui_getname function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc7 and earlier does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to read the contents of some kernel memory locations by calling getsockname on an AF_LLC socket.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.31

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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