PT-2013-4242 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Mathias Krause · Published 2013-04-22 · Updated 2021-08-09 · CVE-2013-3236

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 is related to the vmci transport dgram dequeue function in the Linux kernel, which does not properly initialize a certain length variable. This allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory 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-2013-3236

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 12

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/680d04e0ba7e926233e3b9cee59125ce181f66ba · Vendor Advisory
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3236 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/59391 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/22/13 · Note
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/83698 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/22/14 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/22/3 · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=680d04e0ba7e926233e3b9cee59125ce181f66ba · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/23/2 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/22/11 · Note