UBUNTU-CVE-2013-3232

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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-3232

Summary:

Details: The nr_recvmsg function in net/netrom/af_netrom.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain data structure, 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-2013-3232, https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c802d759623acbd6e1ee9fbdabae89159a513913, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3ce5efad47b62c57a4f5c54248347085a750ce0e, 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=c802d759623acbd6e1ee9fbdabae89159a513913, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3ce5efad47b62c57a4f5c54248347085a750ce0e, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1837-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1849-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1876-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1877-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1878-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1879-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1880-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1881-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1882-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1883-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-3232