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Tracker / CVE-2010-3078

CVE-2010-3078

Medium 5.5

The xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr function in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an ioctl call.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.35.4
opensuse opensuse
suse suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
suse suse_linux_enterprise_server
vmware esx

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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