CVE - CVE-2013-3230

CVE-ID
CVE-2013-3230	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The l2tp_ip6_recvmsg function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.
References
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CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b860d3cc62877fad02863e2a08efff69a19382d2 CONFIRM:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b860d3cc62877fad02863e2a08efff69a19382d2 FEDORA:FEDORA-2013-6537 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2013-6999 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html MLIST:[linux-kernel] 20130414 Linux 3.9-rc7 URL:https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107 MLIST:[oss-security] 20130414 Linux kernel: more net info leak fixes for v3.9 URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2013:1971 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html UBUNTU:USN-1837-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20130421	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20130421)
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