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CVE-2012-6536
Published: Mar 14, 2013
Modified: Sep 17, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not verify that the actual Netlink message length is consistent with a certain header field, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a (1) new or (2) updated state.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[oss-security] 20130305 CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefs
mailing-list
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https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
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