Security Advisory

CVE-2013-3076

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-04-22 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 16:00:09

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The crypto API in the Linux kernel through 3.9-rc8 does not initialize certain length variables, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call, related to the hash_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_hash.c and the skcipher_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_skcipher.c.

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