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CVE-2010-3875
medium
Description
The ax25_getname function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a copy of this structure.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649713
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44630
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:051
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/5