Published: 22/04/2013 Updated: 07/11/2023

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 ax25_recvmsg function in net/ax25/af_ax25.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

The ax25_recvmsg function in net/ax25/af_ax25c in the Linux kernel before 39-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 ...

CWE-200 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ef3313e84acbf349caecae942ab3ab731471f1a1 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 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-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef3313e84acbf349caecae942ab3ab731471f1a1 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2668 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1879-1/https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-3223

CVE-2013-3223

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