{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2010-10-06T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: ipc/compat*.c: reading uninitialized stack memory",
    "id" : "648658",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648658"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "1.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The ipc subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via vectors related to the (1) compat_sys_semctl, (2) compat_sys_msgctl, and (3) compat_sys_shmctl functions in ipc/compat.c; and the (4) compat_sys_mq_open and (5) compat_sys_mq_getsetattr functions in ipc/compat_mq.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 IPC compat functionality.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2010-12-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0958",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.7-rt29.47.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2011-01-18T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0162",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-89.35.1.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-01-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0017",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-238.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-01-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0007",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.14.1.el6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4073\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4073" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-4073",
  "csaw" : false
}