CVE-2010-3078

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-09-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr function in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an ioctl call.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10
Linux kernel: through 2.6.35.4; 2.6.36, 2.6.36-rc1, 2.6.36-rc2, 2.6.36-rc3
Opensuse: 11.1, 11.3
Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 11-sp1
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 11-sp1
VMware ESX: 4.0, 4.1

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a122eb2fdfd78b58c6dd992d6f4b1aaef667eef9
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/41284
http://secunia.com/advisories/41512
http://secunia.com/advisories/42890
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024418
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc4
http://www.linux.sgi.com/archives/xfs-masters/2010-09/msg00002.html

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