Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6540

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 do_ip_vs_get_ctl function in net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure for IP_VS_SO_GET_TIMEOUT commands, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

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