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ghsa-q428-g62p-pgvx

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 01:08

Modified

2022-05-14 01:08

Details

The copy_to_user_auth function in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 uses an incorrect C library function for copying a string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

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cve-2012-6538

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2013-03-14 20:00

Modified

2024-08-06 21:28

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4c87308bdea31a7b4828a51f6156e6f721a1fcc9	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4c87308bdea31a7b4828a51f6156e6f721a1fcc9	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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Nomenclature

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