CVE-2012-6538

Publication date

2013-03-14 20:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The copy_to_user_auth function in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 uses an incorrect C library function for copying a string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.