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CVE-2010-4074

CVE information

Published

13 years ago

Last Modified

5 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

Impact Analysis

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Description

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
1.9/10
Exploit Score
3.4/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.36:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.36:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.36:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.36:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 2.6.36
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.36:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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