Uninitialized Structure Vulnerability in ax25_getname Function

CVE-2010-3875 · LOW Severity

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

The ax25_getname function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a copy of this structure.

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