| Revision Date: | 2013-04-29 | Version: | 11 | | Title: | The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does not initialize certain padding fields in structures, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tc_fill_qdisc, (2) tcf_fill_node, (3) neightbl_fill_info, (4) neightbl_fill_param_info, (5) neigh_fill_info, (6) rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo, (7) rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo, (8) vif_delete, (9) ipmr_destroy_unres, (10) ipmr_cache_alloc_unres, (11) ipmr_cache_resolve, (12) inet6_fill_ifinfo, (13) tca_get_fill, (14) tca_action_flush, (15) tcf_add_notify, (16) tc_dump_action, (17) cbq_dump_police, (18) __nlmsg_put, (19) __rta_fill, (20) __rta_reserve, (21) inet6_fill_prefix, (22) rsvp_dump, and (23) cbq_dump_ovl functions. | | Description: | The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does not initialize certain padding fields in structures, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) tc_fill_qdisc, (2) tcf_fill_node, (3) neightbl_fill_info, (4) neightbl_fill_param_info, (5) neigh_fill_info, (6) rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo, (7) rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo, (8) vif_delete, (9) ipmr_destroy_unres, (10) ipmr_cache_alloc_unres, (11) ipmr_cache_resolve, (12) inet6_fill_ifinfo, (13) tca_get_fill, (14) tca_action_flush, (15) tcf_add_notify, (16) tc_dump_action, (17) cbq_dump_police, (18) __nlmsg_put, (19) __rta_fill, (20) __rta_reserve, (21) inet6_fill_prefix, (22) rsvp_dump, and (23) cbq_dump_ovl functions. | | Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | | Status: | ACCEPTED | Reference(s): | CVE-2005-4881
| | Platform(s): | CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
| Product(s): | | | Definition Synopsis | | RHEL4, CentOS4 or Oracle Linux 4 The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
OR CentOS Linux 4.x
OR Oracle Linux 4.x
AND Configuration section
kernel-xenU is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-hugemem is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-hugemem-devel is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-xenU-devel is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-smp-devel is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-largesmp-devel is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-devel is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-doc is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-largesmp is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
OR kernel-smp is earlier than 0:2.6.9-89.0.15.EL
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