CVE-2009-3002 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2009-3002?

CVE-2009-3002 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 28 Aug 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc7 does not initialize certain data structures within getname functions, which allows local users to read the contents of some kernel memory locations by calling getsockname on (1) an AF_APPLETALK socket, related to the atalk_getname function in net/appletalk/ddp.c; (2) an AF_IRDA socket, related to the irda_getname function in net/irda/af_irda.c; (3) an AF_ECONET socket, related to the econet_getname function in net/econet/af_econet.c; (4) an AF_NETROM socket, related to the nr_getname function in net/netrom/af_netrom.c; (5) an AF_ROSE socket, related to the rose_getname function in net/rose/af_rose.c; or (6) a raw CAN socket, related to the raw_getname function in net/can/raw.c.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-3002?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2009-3002?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2009-3002 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-3002 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6v8v-wc26-56rj.