CVE-2010-3877 (GCVE-0-2010-3877)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-03 19:26 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:26
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
15 references
Date Public
2010-10-31 00:00
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