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CVE-2010-2955 (GCVE-0-2010-2955)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-09-08 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 02:55
VLAI
Summary
The cfg80211_wext_giwessid function in net/wireless/wext-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to leverage an off-by-one error in the ioctl_standard_iw_point function in net/wireless/wext-core.c, and obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory, via vectors involving an SIOCGIWESSID ioctl call that specifies a large buffer size.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2010-05-13 00:00
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