Security Advisory

CVE-2013-3237

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-04-22 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 17:44:09
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The vsock_stream_sendmsg function in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.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.