CVE-2012-6543

Published: Mar 14, 2013

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The l2tp_ip6_getname function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, 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

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/04d4fbca1017c11381e7d82acea21dd741e748bc

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

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

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04d4fbca1017c11381e7d82acea21dd741e748bc

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CVE-2012-6543

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