Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6536

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-14 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 03:27:42
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not verify that the actual Netlink message length is consistent with a certain header field, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a (1) new or (2) updated state.