CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-2141
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The do_tkill function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application that makes a (1) tkill or (2) tgkill system call.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.8.8)
• linux linux kernel 3.8.0
• linux linux kernel 3.8.1
• linux linux kernel 3.8.2
• linux linux kernel 3.8.3
• linux linux kernel 3.8.4
• linux linux kernel 3.8.5
• linux linux kernel 3.8.6
• linux linux kernel 3.8.7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1801.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55055 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.9 www.kernel.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/04/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1899-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1900-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970873 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f Exploit, Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1801.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55055 secunia.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.9 www.kernel.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/04/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1899-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1900-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970873 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f Exploit, Patch