CVE-2013-3237
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 22, 2013
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 21, 2013
Description
The vsock_stream_sendmsg function in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.
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
- [linux-kernel] 20130414 Linux 3.9-rc7mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20130414 Linux kernel: more net info leak fixes for v3.9mailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d5e0d0f607a7a029c6563a0470d88255c89a8d11
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d5e0d0f607a7a029c6563a0470d88255c89a8d11
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