Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6547

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-14 20:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 21:36:01

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The __tun_chr_ioctl function in drivers/net/tun.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

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