Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-3612

Title: Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-3612.

CWE Category CWE-200
Published Date Oct 19, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-3612: The tcf_fill_node function in net/sched/cls_api.c in the netlink subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.32-rc5, and 2.4.37.6 and earlier, does not initialize a certain tcm__pad2 structure member, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-4881.

Impacted Vendors

L
linux 1
U
ubuntu 2
C
canonical 1
R
redhat 1
O
opensuse 1
S
suse 4
F
fedoraproject 1

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad61df918c44316940404891d5082c63e79c256a http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/35412/ http://secunia.com/advisories/37086 http://secunia.com/advisories/37909 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc5 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/14/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/14/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/15/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/15/3 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1670.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528868 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10395 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7557 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad61df918c44316940404891d5082c63e79c256a http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/35412/ http://secunia.com/advisories/37086 http://secunia.com/advisories/37909 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc5 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/14/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/14/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/15/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/15/3 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1670.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528868 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10395 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7557 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
2.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-3612 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.