Description (CNA)
The ax25_recvmsg function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef3313e84acbf349caecae942ab3ab731471f1a1
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef3313e84acbf349caecae942ab3ab731471f1a1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef3313e84acbf349caecae942ab3ab731471f1a1
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef3313e84acbf349caecae942ab3ab731471f1a1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html