{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2010-08-17T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: net sched: fix some kernel memory leaks",
    "id" : "624903",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624903"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-401",
  "details" : [ "The actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members when performing dump operations, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors related to (1) the tcf_gact_dump function in net/sched/act_gact.c, (2) the tcf_mirred_dump function in net/sched/act_mirred.c, (3) the tcf_nat_dump function in net/sched/act_nat.c, (4) the tcf_simp_dump function in net/sched/act_simple.c, and (5) the tcf_skbedit_dump function in net/sched/act_skbedit.c." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat\nEnterprise Linux 3 as it did not include upstream commit be84c7f6 (history repository) that introduced the problem. A future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG will address this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2010-10-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0771",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.7-rt29.45.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2010-10-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0779",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-89.31.1.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2010-09-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0723",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-194.17.1.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2942\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2942" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-2942",
  "csaw" : false
}