CVE-2005-4881 Information

Description

The netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.13-rc1 does not initialize certain padding fields in structures which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors related to the (1) tc_fill_qdisc (2) tcf_fill_node (3) neightbl_fill_info (4) neightbl_fill_param_info (5) neigh_fill_info (6) rtnetlink_fill_ifinfo (7) rtnetlink_fill_iwinfo (8) vif_delete (9) ipmr_destroy_unres (10) ipmr_cache_alloc_unres (11) ipmr_cache_resolve (12) inet6_fill_ifinfo (13) tca_get_fill (14) tca_action_flush (15) tcf_add_notify (16) tc_dump_action (17) cbq_dump_police (18) __nlmsg_put (19) __rta_fill (20) __rta_reserve (21) inet6_fill_prefix (22) rsvp_dump and (23) cbq_dump_ovl functions.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=commit;h=0f3f2328f63c521fe4b435f148687452f98b2349 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=commit;h=30e744716c4a6cc4e8ecaaddf68f20057c03dc8d http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=commit;h=3408cce0c2f380884070896420ca566704452fb5 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8a47077a0b5aa2649751c46e7a27884e6686ccbf http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9ef1d4c7c7aca1cd436612b6ca785b726ffb8ed8 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b3563c4fbff906991a1b4ef4609f99cca2a0de6a http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html http://marc.info/?l=git-commits-head&m=112002138324380 http://secunia.com/advisories/37084 http://secunia.com/advisories/37909 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.37.6 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.13/ChangeLog-2.6.13-rc1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/05/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/06/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/07/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/17/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/17/9 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1522.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521601 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11744