FKIE_CVE-2013-3232

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-04-22 11:41 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:54
Severity
Summary
The nr_recvmsg function in net/netrom/af_netrom.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ce5efad47b62c57a4f5c54248347085a750ce0e
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c802d759623acbd6e1ee9fbdabae89159a513913
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3ce5efad47b62c57a4f5c54248347085a750ce0eVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c802d759623acbd6e1ee9fbdabae89159a513913
cve@mitre.orghttps://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3ce5efad47b62c57a4f5c54248347085a750ce0e
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c802d759623acbd6e1ee9fbdabae89159a513913
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3ce5efad47b62c57a4f5c54248347085a750ce0eVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c802d759623acbd6e1ee9fbdabae89159a513913
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 3.9
linux linux_kernel 3.9
linux linux_kernel 3.9
linux linux_kernel 3.9
linux linux_kernel 3.9
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