{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2010-08-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: wireless: fix 64K kernel heap content leak via ioctl",
    "id" : "628434",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628434"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The cfg80211_wext_giwessid function in net/wireless/wext-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc3-next-20100831 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to leverage an off-by-one error in the ioctl_standard_iw_point function in net/wireless/wext-core.c, and obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory, via vectors involving an SIOCGIWESSID ioctl call that specifies a large buffer size." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5 as they did not backport the upstream commit 3d23e349 that had introduced the problem. A future update in Red Hat Enterprise MRG may address this flaw.",
  "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 6",
    "release_date" : "2010-11-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0842",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.7.1.el6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2955\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2955" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-2955",
  "csaw" : false
}