CVE-2009-0676
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2009-02-22 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
The sock_getsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via an SO_BSDCOMPAT getsockopt request.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 2.1 |
| Vector String: | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel) | ELSA-2009-0459 | 2009-05-01 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL) | ELSA-2009-0459 | 2009-05-01 |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.22.0.1.EL) | ELSA-2009-0459 | 2009-05-01 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel) | ELSA-2009-0326 | 2009-04-01 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-128.1.6.0.1.el5) | ELSA-2009-0326 | 2009-04-01 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-128.1.6.0.1.el5) | ELSA-2009-0326 | 2009-04-01 |
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