CVE-2012-6536
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 14, 2013
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 14, 2013
Description
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not verify that the actual Netlink message length is consistent with a certain header field, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a (1) new or (2) updated state.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20130305 CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefsmailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720
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