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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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CVE-2010-4655 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b00916b189d13a615ff05c9242201135992fcda3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/9 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/28/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45972 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/7/297 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-665 Improper Initialization cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-4655
NVD Published Date:
07/18/2011
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.