PT-2010-5277
CVE-2010-4077
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Published
2010-11-29
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Updated
2020-08-07
Description by
CVSS 2.0
1.9
LowMetricsAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36.1
Description
The issue is related to the ntty ioctl tiocgicount function in the Linux kernel, which does not properly initialize a certain structure member. This allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call.
Recommendations
For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.36.1, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue.
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