CVE-2010-3477

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Published 2010-09-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.1

Description

The tcf_act_police_dump function in net/sched/act_police.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors involving a dump operation. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-2942.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
5.0	Affected	—

Linux kernel Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
2.6.36	Affected	—
—	Affected	`2.6.36`

Ubuntu Affected 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
10.10	Affected	—
10.04	Affected	—
9.10	Affected	—
9.04	Affected	—
8.04	Affected	—
6.06	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.