CVE-2013-2237
CVE-2013-2237
The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.
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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40http://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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981220https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/04/3http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1