Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2010-3876 · LOW Severity

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

net/packet/af_packet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW capability to read copies of the applicable structures.

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