CVE-2013-3224

Publication date

2013-04-22 10:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The bt_sock_recvmsg function in net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not properly initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.