Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2010-3477
The tcf_act_police_dump function in net/sched/act_police.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors involving a dump operation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-2942.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (32.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Linux Kernel — versions 2.6.36
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.10, 6.06, 10.04
- Debian Linux — versions 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/46397 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- git.kernel.org/
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html (Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/42890 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc4 (Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)