CVE-2012-6543

2022-10-0316:15:27

mitre

www.cve.org

linux kernel

sensitive information

kernel stack memory

5.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

35.4%

JSON

The l2tp_ip6_getname function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

References

git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04d4fbca1017c11381e7d82acea21dd741e748bc

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

github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/04d4fbca1017c11381e7d82acea21dd741e748bc

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