UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2237

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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2237

Summary:

Details: 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.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2237, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40, https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981220, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/04/3, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1912-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1913-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1970-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1972-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1973-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1992-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1993-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1995-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1998-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2237