UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6547

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

PT-2009-4357 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions 2.6.30 and 2.6.30.1 Description: The issue allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving a NULL pointer dereference and an mmap of /dev/net/tun. This is due to the tun chr poll function in drivers/net/tun.c...