Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6538

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

The copy_to_user_auth function in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 uses an incorrect C library function for copying a string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

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