CVE-2010-3298 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Kernel

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure11 documents6 sources
Severity
2.1LOWNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 78.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
Linux KernelCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+4 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 30
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The hso_get_count function in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/C:P/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages5 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel< 2.6.36+1
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse11.2, 11.3+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 5.0, Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 10.10, 9.10

Patches

Patch: lkml.org ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-j939-hwr4-9qqc: The hso_get_count function in drivers/net/usb/hso↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2010-3298: The hso_get_count function in drivers/net/usb/hso↗2010-09-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

6
Ubuntu
Linux Kernel vulnerabilities (Marvell Dove)↗2011-03-25
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2011-03-03
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2011-02-28
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2011-02-25
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2011-01-10
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2010-3298 kernel: drivers/net/usb/hso.c: prevent reading uninitialized memory↗2010-09-13
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Bugzilla
CVE-2010-2939 openssl: double-free vulnerability in ssl3_get_key_exchange()↗2010-08-11
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