CVE-2010-3296

CVE-2010-3296 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The cxgb_extension_ioctl function in drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a CHELSIO_GET_QSET_NUM ioctl call.

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