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CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
0.41%
Published
Dec 10, 2010
Modified
Apr 28, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
The ethtool_get_rxnfc function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not initialize a certain block of heap memory, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information via an ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL ethtool command with a large info.rule_cnt value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2478.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (9)
References (20)