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Tracker / CVE-2012-6537

CVE-2012-6537

Low 1.9

net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.5.7
redhat enterprise_linux

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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