CVE-2013-2237 (GCVE-0-2013-2237)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-07-04 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:27
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1970-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/04/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981220 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1973-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1992-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/85dfb745… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvald… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1993-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patc… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1972-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
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