CVE-2010-4074
The USB subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to TIOCGICOUNT ioctl calls, and the (1) mos7720_ioctl function in drivers/usb/serial/mos7720.c and (2) mos7840_ioctl function in drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 1.9 Low
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2010-11-29
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Affected products
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a0846f1868b11cd827bdfeaf4527d8b1b1c0b098
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/392
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45074
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648659
