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CVE-2013-2148

CVE-2013-2148

EPSS 0.4%
The fill_event_metadata function in fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a read operation on the fanotify descriptor.
Affected products
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.htmlhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/128https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971258http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/05/26http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1929-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1930-1