CVE

Id
46061  
CVE No.
CVE-2010-3477  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20100921)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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