Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24463Information Disclosure
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure. A flaw in ethtool_get_rxnfc() in the Linux kernel’s ethtool IOCTL handler. When it is called with a large info.rule_cnt, it could allow a local user to cause an information leak.
References
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ae6df5f96a51818d6376da5307d773baeece4014
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