CVE-2010-3861
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
The ethtool_get_rxnfc function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not initialize a certain block of heap memory, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information via an ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL ethtool command with a large info.rule_cnt value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2478.
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Statement
This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, as they do not include support for the Neptune
Ethernet driver. It did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it did not contain the upstream commit 0853ad66 that introduced this flaw.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (kernel) | RHSA-2011:0007 | 2011-01-11 |
| MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server (kernel-rt) | RHSA-2010:0958 | 2010-12-08 |
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this issue.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation