PT-2013-4238 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Mathias Krause · Published 2013-04-22 · Updated 2014-01-04 · CVE-2013-3226

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.9-rc7

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory. This is due to the sco sock recvmsg function in net/bluetooth/sco.c not initializing a certain length variable, which can be exploited via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 3.9-rc7, update to version 3.9-rc7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-3226

USN-1837-1

USN-1849-1

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 13

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-3226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3226 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-3226 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1837-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-3226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1849-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3 · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38 · Note
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107 · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c8c499175f7d295ef867335bceb9a76a2c3cdc38 · Note