CVE-2012-6542

Publication date

2013-03-14 20:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The llc_ui_getname function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 has an incorrect return value in certain circumstances, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application that leverages an uninitialized pointer argument.