CVE-2010-3078: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr function in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an ioctl call.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 6.06 only; version 8.04 only; version 9.04 only; version 9.10 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.35.4; version 2.6.36 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.1 only; version 11.3 only
• Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 11 only
• Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only
• VMware Esx: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2010-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.