CVE-2009-3228 Information

Description

The tc_fill_tclass function in net/sched/sch_api.c in the tc subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.4.x before 2.4.37.6 and 2.6.x before 2.6.31-rc9 does not initialize certain (1) tcm__pad1 and (2) tcm__pad2 structure members which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=commit;h=096ed17f20affc2db0e307658c69b67433992a7a http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=16ebb5e0b36ceadc8186f71d68b0c4fa4b6e781b http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/32830/ http://secunia.com/advisories/37084 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.37.6 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.31/ChangeLog-2.6.31-rc9 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/03/1 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 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023073 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520990 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6757 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9409 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html