| Summary: | Kernel: net: leakage of uninitialized memory to user-space via recv syscalls (CVE-2013-6405) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Kernel | Assignee: | Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kernel |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035875 | ||
| Whiteboard: | [linux < 3.13_rc1] | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Fixes in 3.12.4 |
From ${URL} : Linux kernel built with the networking support(CONFIG_NET), is vulnerable to a memory leakage flaw. It occurs while doing the recvmsg(2), recvfrom(2), recvmmsg(2) socket calls. A user/program could use this flaw to leak kernel memory bytes. Upstream fix: ------------- -> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=bceaa90240b6019ed73b49965eac7d167610be69 -> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=85fbaa75037d0b6b786ff18658ddf0b4014ce2a4