The vulnerability of the tipc_connect() function in the net/tipc/socket.c module of the Linux kernel allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the tipcconnect function in the net/tipc/socket.c module of the Linux kernel relates to the disclosure of information in the erroneous data area. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

SUSE CVE-2010-3877

The getname function in net/tipc/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a copy of this structure...