CVE-2010-3298

The hso_get_count function in drivers/net/usb/hso.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc5 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call.

Date published : 2010-09-30

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43226

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7011e660938fc44ed86319c18a5954e95a82ab3e