CVE-2012-6541

Linux Kernel < 3.5.7 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

Description

The ccid3_hc_tx_getsockopt 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.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

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

Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7b07f8eb75aa3097cdfd4f6eac3da49db787381d

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

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

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7b07f8eb75aa3097cdfd4f6eac3da49db787381d

Scores

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 22.7%

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (44)

linux/linux_kernel 3.0 rc1 (7 CPE variants)

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.1

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.2

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.3

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.4

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.5

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.6

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.7

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.8

linux/linux_kernel 3.0.9

... and 34 more

Published Mar 15, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026