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CVE-2013-3230

Published: Apr 22, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The l2tp_ip6_recvmsg function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

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

References

FEDORA-2013-6537

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b860d3cc62877fad02863e2a08efff69a19382d2

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b860d3cc62877fad02863e2a08efff69a19382d2

x_refsource_CONFIRM

FEDORA-2013-6999

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

[linux-kernel] 20130414 Linux 3.9-rc7

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

[oss-security] 20130414 Linux kernel: more net info leak fixes for v3.9

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

openSUSE-SU-2013:1971

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

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