{"id":"CVE-2010-3477","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2010-3477","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:51.527Z","title":"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…","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.  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