CVE-2010-3875

Published: 03 January 2011

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.

From the Ubuntu security team

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation did not correctly clear kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)






	Patches: Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)






linux-fsl-imx51 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)






linux-lts-backport-maverick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)






linux-lts-backport-natty Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)






linux-mvl-dove Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)






linux-source-2.6.15 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)






linux-ti-omap4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.37~rc2)

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