UBUNTU-CVE-2013-3226

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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-3226

Summary:

Details: The sco_sock_recvmsg function in net/bluetooth/sco.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-3226, https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1837-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1849-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-3226