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CVE-2012-6544

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Description

The Bluetooth protocol stack in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not properly initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application that targets the (1) L2CAP or (2) HCI implementation.

References

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e15ca9a0ef9a86f0477530b0f44a725d67f889ee

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/792039c73cf176c8e39a6e8beef2c94ff46522ed

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3f68ba07b1da811bf383b4b701b129bfcb2e4988

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1805-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e15ca9a0ef9a86f0477530b0f44a725d67f889ee

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=792039c73cf176c8e39a6e8beef2c94ff46522ed

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3f68ba07b1da811bf383b4b701b129bfcb2e4988

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-03-15

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00076

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