Tracker / CVE-2010-4655
CVE-2010-4655
Medium 5.5
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.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 2.6.36 |
| vmware | esx |
Analysis
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