CVE-2013-3224

Description

The bt_sock_recvmsg function in net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not properly 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.

References

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

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4683f42fde3977bdb4e8a09622788cc8b5313778

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

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

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html

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

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

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

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

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

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4683f42fde3977bdb4e8a09622788cc8b5313778

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS