Security Advisory

CVE-2013-3231

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-04-22 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 16:00:10
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The llc_ui_recvmsg function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.