CVE-2012-3430

Publication date

2012-10-03 10:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The rds_recvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom or (2) recvmsg system call on an RDS socket.