{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2010-10-11T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: heap contents leak for CAP_NET_ADMIN via ethtool ioctl",
    "id" : "672428",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672428"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "1.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an ethtool ioctl call." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2011-03-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0330",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.7-rt29.55.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2011-02-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0263",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-100.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-03-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0303",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-238.5.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-04-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0421",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.24.1.el6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4655\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4655" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-4655",
  "csaw" : false
}