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CVE-2012-6541

CVE-2012-6541

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7b07f8eb75aa3097cdfd4f6eac3da49db787381dhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7b07f8eb75aa3097cdfd4f6eac3da49db787381dhttps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13