CVE-2012-6543

Published: March 15, 2013Last modified: November 10, 2023

Description

The l2tp_ip6_getname function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

Status

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=04d4fbca1017c11381e7d82acea21dd741e748bc
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/04d4fbca1017c11381e7d82acea21dd741e748bc
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2