CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-3228
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The irda_recvmsg_dgram function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel before 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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.9)
• linux linux kernel 3.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5ae94c0d2f0bed41d6718be743985d61b7f5c47d git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5ae94c0d2f0bed41d6718be743985d61b7f5c47d github.com
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107 Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5ae94c0d2f0bed41d6718be743985d61b7f5c47d git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5ae94c0d2f0bed41d6718be743985d61b7f5c47d github.com
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107 Vendor Advisory