Security Advisory

CVE-2013-3234

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-04-22 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 16:00:10
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The rose_recvmsg function in net/rose/af_rose.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.