CVE-2013-7271

2014-01-0611:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

4.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.3%

JSON

The x25_recvmsg function in net/x25/af_x25.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length value without ensuring that an associated data structure has been initialized, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call.

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