Security Advisory

CVE-2013-2237

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-07-04 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 15:27:41
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.