CVE-2012-6541

Description

The ccid3_hc_tx_getsockopt function in net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

References

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7b07f8eb75aa3097cdfd4f6eac3da49db787381d

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7b07f8eb75aa3097cdfd4f6eac3da49db787381d

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3