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CVE-2010-4655

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.

POC

Reference

- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Github

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