CVE-2012-6541

Publication date

2013-03-14 20:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The ccid3_hc_tx_getsockopt function in net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.