The vulnerability of the Linux operating system allows a malicious individual to gain access to confidential information from the kernel’s stack memory.

A vulnerability exists in the ccid3hctxgetsockopt function in the Linux kernel’s net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.c file, due to the lack of initialization for certain structures. Exploiting this vulnerability allows local users to access confidential information from the kernel’s stack memory through a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6541

The ccid3hctxgetsockopt function in net/dccp/ccids/ccid3.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...