Security Advisory

CVE-2012-6549

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-03-14 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 21:36:00
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The isofs_export_encode_fh function in fs/isofs/export.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory via a crafted application.