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Bug 462692 (CVE-2013-2634) - Kernel : Information leak in the Data Center Bridging (DCB) component (CVE-2013-2634)
Summary: Kernel : Information leak in the Data Center Bridging (DCB) component (CVE-20...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2013-2634
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Kernel Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: [<3.8.4]
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Reported: 2013-03-22 14:49 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2021-10-25 00:30 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-03-22 14:49:49 UTC 
From $URL :

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2634 to the following vulnerability:

net/dcb/dcbnl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.4 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory 
via a crafted application.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2634
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/20/1
[3] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=29cd8ae0e1a39e239a3a7b67da1986add1199fc0
[4] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.4
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923652
[6] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/29cd8ae0e1a39e239a3a7b67da1986add1199fc0
Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-10-25 00:30:05 UTC 
Patch in 3.9 onwards