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HistoryFeb 22, 2009 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2009-0676

2009-02-2200:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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2.1 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

0.4%

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.

Notes

Author Note
mdeslaur PoC: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6816/
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu8.04noarchlinux< 2.6.24-23.52UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.10noarchlinux< 2.6.27-11.31UNKNOWN
ubuntu6.06noarchlinux-source-2.6.15< 2.6.15-54.76UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.10noarchlinux-source-2.6.22< 2.6.22-16.62UNKNOWN

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

0.4%