The cfg80211_wext_giwessid function in net/wireless/wext-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to leverage an off-by-one error in the ioctl_standard_iw_point function in net/wireless/wext-core.c, and obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory, via vectors involving an SIOCGIWESSID ioctl call that specifies a large buffer size.
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Information
Published : 2010-09-08 20:00
Updated : 2023-12-10 11:03
NVD link : CVE-2010-2955
Mitre link : CVE-2010-2955
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2010-2955
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Products Affected
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
suse
- linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
- linux_enterprise_server
- linux_enterprise_desktop
opensuse
- opensuse
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-193
Off-by-one Error