CVE-2010-4655 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4655?

CVE-2010-4655 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 Jul 2011. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an ethtool ioctl call.

Weakness: CWE-665

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4655?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Vmware Esx.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4655?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2010-4655 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4655 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c9rp-95rg-526v.