Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4655

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-07-18 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:51:17
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.