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Tracker / CVE-2006-1342

CVE-2006-1342

Low 2.1

net/ipv4/af_inet.c in Linux kernel 2.4 does not clear sockaddr_in.sin_zero before returning IPv4 socket names from the (1) getsockname, (2) getpeername, and (3) accept functions, which allows local users to obtain portions of potentially sensitive memory.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel

Analysis

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