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CVE-2013-3231

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Date: April 22, 2013

The llc_ui_recvmsg function in net/llc/af_llc.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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.1

Related Resources (17)

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3231

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c77a4b9cffb6215a15196ec499490d116dfad181

Url: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-3231

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-3231

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c77a4b9cffb6215a15196ec499490d116dfad181

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-3231

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-3231

Severity Score

5.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Information Leak / Disclosure

CWE-200

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.7
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2013-3231

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Date: April 22, 2013

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (17)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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