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CVE-2013-4515

CVE-2013-4515

EPSS 0.4%
The bcm_char_ioctl function in drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via an IOCTL_BCM_GET_DEVICE_DRIVER_INFO ioctl call.
Affected products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8d1e72250c847fa96498ec029891de4dc638a5bahttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00002.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.htmlhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8d1e72250c847fa96498ec029891de4dc638a5bahttps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.12.bz2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/04/22http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2068-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2069-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2070-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2071-1