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 vsock_stream_sendmsg function in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #706557 open-vm-tools: CVE-2013-3237 Package: src:open-vm-tools; Maintainer for src:open-vm-tools is Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 14:57:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security Found in version open-vm-t ...

The vsock_stream_sendmsg function in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsockc in the Linux kernel before 39-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 ...

CWE-200 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d5e0d0f607a7a029c6563a0470d88255c89a8d11 https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d5e0d0f607a7a029c6563a0470d88255c89a8d11 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706557 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-3237

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