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CVE-2012-6539
Published: Mar 14, 2013
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The dev_ifconf function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.
| 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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USN-1792-1
vendor-advisory
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https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
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USN-1798-1
vendor-advisory
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