Description
The rds_recvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom or (2) recvmsg system call on an RDS socket.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1572-1 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1579-1 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1578-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50732 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50811 ↗
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.0.44 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1567-1 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820039 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1577-1 ↗
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1568-1 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1575-1 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50633 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1580-1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/26/5 ↗