Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-1342. PoCs published by Pavel Kankovsky.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a local memory-disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel by leveraging socket operations to dump kernel memory contents. It binds to a specified port, accepts a connection, and uses getsockname and getsockopt to leak memory data.
Description
net/ipv4/af_inet.c in Linux kernel 2.4 does not clear sockaddr_in.sin_zero before returning IPv4 socket names from the (1) getsockname, (2) getpeername, and (3) accept functions, which allows local users to obtain portions of potentially sensitive memory.
Exploits (1)
This exploit demonstrates a local memory-disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel by leveraging socket operations to dump kernel memory contents. It binds to a specified port, accepts a connection, and uses getsockname and getsockopt to leak memory data.