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CVE-2010-4073 (GCVE-0-2010-4073)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-11-29 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:34
VLAI
Summary
The ipc subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the (1) compat_sys_semctl, (2) compat_sys_msgctl, and (3) compat_sys_shmctl functions in ipc/compat.c; and the (4) compat_sys_mq_open and (5) compat_sys_mq_getsetattr functions in ipc/compat_mq.c.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
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Date Public
2010-10-06 00:00
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      "aggregate_severity": "Low",
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:01:16+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2010-4073",
      "id": "CVE-2010-4073",
      "initial_release_date": "2010-10-06T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "470",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "kernel: ipc/compat*.c: reading uninitialized stack memory",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2010/cve-2010-4073.json",
      "version": "3"
    },
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-08-27T02:14:20Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2010-4073",
      "id": "CVE-2010-4073",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:56:12Z",
      "product_status:recommended": "100",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2010-4073",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2010-4073.json",
      "version": "18"
    }
  }
}



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