CVE-2013-7263

EPSS 0.5%

The Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates certain length values before ensuring that associated data structures have been initialized, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call, related to net/ipv4/ping.c, net/ipv4/raw.c, net/ipv4/udp.c, net/ipv6/raw.c, and net/ipv6/udp.c.

Affected products

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bceaa90240b6019ed73b49965eac7d167610be69 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0159.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0285.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035875 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/29 http://secunia.com/advisories/55882 http://secunia.com/advisories/56036