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Tracker / CVE-2012-6548

CVE-2012-6548

Low 1.9

The udf_encode_fh function in fs/udf/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory via a crafted application.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.5.7
redhat enterprise_linux

Analysis

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