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CVE request: kernel: CAN information leak


From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:19:56 -0400

The CAN protocol uses the address of a kernel heap object as a proc
filename, revealing information that could be useful during
exploitation.

The below post also mentions a heap overflow.  While there is a
semantic overflow (17 bytes being copied into a 9-byte buffer), in
reality, the object whose member is being overflowed resides in a
kernel heap slab cache that includes enough padding that there is no
possible corruption.  So, it's a bug but not a vulnerability.

Reference:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128872251418192&w=2

-Dan


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