Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6537

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-14 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 21:28:39
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.