The cfg80211_wext_giwessid function in net/wireless/wext-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to leverage an off-by-one error in the ioctl_standard_iw_point function in net/wireless/wext-core.c, and obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory, via vectors involving an SIOCGIWESSID ioctl call that specifies a large buffer size.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2010-09-08T19:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T02:55:45.505Z
Reserved: 2010-08-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2010-2955
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2010-09-08T20:00:03.417
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:17:43.747
Link: CVE-2010-2955
Redhat