CVE - CVE-2013-2234

CVE-ID
CVE-2013-2234	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The (1) key_notify_sa_flush and (2) key_notify_policy_flush functions in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 do not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify interface of an IPSec key_socket.
References
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MISC:DSA-2766 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766 MISC:RHSA-2013:1166 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html MISC:RHSA-2013:1645 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2013:1473 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2013:1474 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html MISC:USN-1912-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1 MISC:USN-1913-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1 MISC:USN-1938-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1938-1 MISC:USN-1941-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1941-1 MISC:USN-1942-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1942-1 MISC:USN-1943-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1943-1 MISC:USN-1944-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1944-1 MISC:USN-1945-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1945-1 MISC:USN-1946-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1946-1 MISC:USN-1947-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1947-1 MISC:[oss-security] 20130702 Re: CVE Request: information leak in AF_KEY notify messages URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/02/7 MISC:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5cc68f3d63306d0d288f31edfc2ae6ef8ecd887 URL:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5cc68f3d63306d0d288f31edfc2ae6ef8ecd887 MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980995 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980995 MISC:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a5cc68f3d63306d0d288f31edfc2ae6ef8ecd887 URL:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a5cc68f3d63306d0d288f31edfc2ae6ef8ecd887 MISC:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.10.bz2 URL:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.10.bz2 MISC:openSUSE-SU-2013:1971 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20130219	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 (20130219)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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