CVE-2005-4881

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 1
Downstream
RHSA-2009:1522
Modified
Published: 19 Oct 2009, 19:27
Last modified:08 Aug 2024, 00:01

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
20/100
CVSS Score
4.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.07% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

19 Oct 2009, 19:27
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
08 Aug 2024, 00:01
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 22%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-200•Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

    The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    2.4.1 | 2.4.2 | 2.4.3 | 2.4.4 | 2.4.5 | 2.4.6 | 2.4.7 | 2.4.8 | 2.4.9 | 2.4.10 | 2.4.11 | 2.4.12 | 2.4.13 | 2.4.14 | 2.4.15 | 2.4.16 | 2.4.17 | 2.4.18 | 2.4.19 | 2.4.20 | 2.4.21 | 2.4.22 | 2.4.23 | 2.4.24 | 2.4.25 | 2.4.26 | 2.4.27 | 2.4.28 | 2.4.29 | 2.4.30 | 2.4.30:rc2 | 2.4.30:rc3 | 2.4.31 | 2.4.32 | 2.4.33 | 2.4.33.1 | 2.4.33.2 | 2.4.33.3 | 2.4.33.4 | 2.4.33.5 | 2.4.33.7 | 2.4.34 | 2.4.34.1 | 2.4.34.2 | 2.4.34.3 | 2.4.34.4 | 2.4.34.5 | 2.4.34.6 | 2.4.35.1 | 2.4.35.2 | 2.4.35.3 | 2.4.35.4 | 2.4.35.5 | 2.4.36 | 2.4.36.1 | 2.4.36.2 | 2.4.36.3 | 2.4.36.4 | 2.4.36.5 | 2.4.36.6 | 2.4.36.7 | 2.4.36.8 | 2.4.36.9 | 2.4.37 | 2.4.37.1 | 2.4.37.2 | 2.4.37.3 | 2.4.37.4 | 2.4.37.5 | 2.6.0 | 2.6.1 | 2.6.10 | 2.6.11 | 2.6.11.1 | 2.6.11.2 | 2.6.11.3 | 2.6.11.4 | 2.6.11.5 | 2.6.11.6 | 2.6.11.7 | 2.6.11.8 | 2.6.11.9 | 2.6.11.10 | 2.6.11.11 | 2.6.11.12 | 2.6.12 | 2.6.12.1 | 2.6.12.2 | 2.6.12.3 | 2.6.12.4 | 2.6.12.5 | 2.6.12.6

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