Published: 22/04/2013 Updated: 29/11/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

The crypto API in the Linux kernel up to and including 3.9-rc8 does not initialize certain length variables, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call, related to the hash_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_hash.c and the skcipher_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_skcipher.c.

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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leak or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2013-0160 vladz reported a timing leak with the /dev/ptmx character device A local user could use this to d ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

The crypto API in the Linux kernel through 39-rc8 does not initialize certain length variables, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call, related to the hash_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_hashc and the skcipher_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_skcipherc ...

CWE-200 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/72a763d805a48ac8c0bf48fdb510e84c12de51fe http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2669 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1879-1/https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-3076

CVE-2013-3076

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