CVE-2010-3876

Published: 03 January 2011

net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW capability to read copies of the applicable structures.

From the Ubuntu security team

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Linux kernel sockets implementation did not properly initialize certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy.

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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=67286640f638f5ad41a946b9a3dc75327950248f
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)

CVE-2010-3876

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