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CVE-2012-6538

Published: Mar 14, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The copy_to_user_auth function in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 uses an incorrect C library function for copying a string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

Vendor	Product	Versions
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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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4c87308bdea31a7b4828a51f6156e6f721a1fcc9

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4c87308bdea31a7b4828a51f6156e6f721a1fcc9

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2

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vendor-advisory

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