CVE-2012-6540
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 14, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 14, 2013
Description
The do_ip_vs_get_ctl function in net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure for IP_VS_SO_GET_TIMEOUT commands, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.
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
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2d8a041b7bfe1097af21441cb77d6af95f4f4680
- [oss-security] 20130305 CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefsmailing-list
- USN-1792-1vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2d8a041b7bfe1097af21441cb77d6af95f4f4680
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
- USN-1798-1vendor-advisory
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