Security Advisory

CVE-2012-3430

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-10-03 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 20:05:12
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The rds_recvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom or (2) recvmsg system call on an RDS socket.