CVE-2010-4072 vulnerability in Canonical and Other Products
Published on November 29, 2010
The copy_shmid_to_user function in ipc/shm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the shmctl system call and the "old shm interface."
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.07%
Percentile
21.52%
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