CVE-2013-2547
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 14, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 8, 2013
Description
The crypto_report_one function in crypto/crypto_user.c in the report API in the crypto user configuration API in the Linux kernel through 3.8.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- USN-1796-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9a5467bf7b6e9e02ec9c3da4e23747c05faeaac6
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9a5467bf7b6e9e02ec9c3da4e23747c05faeaac6
- MDVSA-2013:176vendor-advisory
- USN-1797-1vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20130305 CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefsmailing-list
- USN-1793-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1971vendor-advisory
- USN-1794-1vendor-advisory
- USN-1795-1vendor-advisory
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