Tracker / CVE-2013-3228
CVE-2013-3228
Medium 4.9
The irda_recvmsg_dgram function in net/irda/af_irda.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.9 |
Analysis
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