CVE-2013-2237

Description

The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.

References

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981220

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1993-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1992-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1973-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1972-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1970-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/04/3

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3