CVE-2010-3877

medium

Description

The get_name function in net/tipc/socket.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

Advisories
More

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64578

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649717

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44630

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126

http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

http://secunia.com/advisories/42884

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/5

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/02/7

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128854507420917&w=2

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=88f8a5e3e7defccd3925cabb1ee4d3994e5cdb52

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-01-03

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00108