CVE-2013-3223

Publication date

2013-04-22 10:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The ax25_recvmsg function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.