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CVE-2012-6542

Published: Mar 14, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The llc_ui_getname function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 has an incorrect return value in certain circumstances, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application that leverages an uninitialized pointer argument.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3592aaeb80290bda0f2cf0b5456c97bfc638b192

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vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20130305 CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefs

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3592aaeb80290bda0f2cf0b5456c97bfc638b192

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

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