CVE-2013-3226

Impact

The sco_sock_recvmsg function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107