CVE-2013-3230

The l2tp_ip6_recvmsg function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

Date published : 2013-04-22

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b860d3cc62877fad02863e2a08efff69a19382d2

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b860d3cc62877fad02863e2a08efff69a19382d2