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Tracker / CVE-2013-2547

CVE-2013-2547

Low 2.1

The crypto_report_one function in crypto/crypto_user.c in the report API in the crypto user configuration API in the Linux kernel through 3.8.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.8.2
redhat enterprise_mrg

Analysis

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