CVE-2010-4525 (GCVE-0-2010-4525)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-11 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Linux kernel 2.6.33 and 2.6.34.y does not initialize the kvm_vcpu_events->interrupt.pad structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
11 references
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|---|---|
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/05/9 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-00… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://osvdb.org/70377 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-00… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45676 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/05/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0123 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
Date Public
2011-01-05 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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