Description
The ATM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e862f1a9b7df4e8196ebec45ac62295138aa3fc2 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3c0c5cfdcd4d69ffc4b9c0907cec99039f30a50a ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1805-1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1 ↗
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e862f1a9b7df4e8196ebec45ac62295138aa3fc2 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c0c5cfdcd4d69ffc4b9c0907cec99039f30a50a ↗