CVE-2012-6545

Description

The Bluetooth RFCOMM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not properly initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel 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/f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1805-1

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3