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CVE-2013-2141

Published: Jun 7, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The do_tkill function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application that makes a (1) tkill or (2) tgkill system call.

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

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970873

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20130604 Re: CVE Request: kernel info leak in tkill/tgkill

mailing-list

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f

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vendor-advisory

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.9

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openSUSE-SU-2013:1971

vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f

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vendor-advisory

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