Description
The tcf_act_police_dump function in net/sched/act_police.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors involving a dump operation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-2942.
References (12)
Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024603
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html
Patch x_refsource_confirm
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0f04cfd098fb81fded74e78ea1a1b86cc6c6c31e
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/42890
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc4
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0779.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126
Scores
EPSS
0.0040
EPSS Percentile
33.0%
Details
CWE
CWE-399
Status
published
Products (9)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
6.06
canonical/ubuntu_linux
8.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
9.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
9.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux
10.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
10.10
debian/debian_linux
5.0
linux/linux_kernel
2.6.36 (4 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
< 2.6.36
Published
Sep 21, 2010
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026