Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4077

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-11-29 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:34:36
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The ntty_ioctl_tiocgicount function in drivers/char/nozomi.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.36.1 and earlier does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call.