CVE-2013-3231

The llc_ui_recvmsg function in net/llc/af_llc.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.

Date published : 2013-04-22

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c77a4b9cffb6215a15196ec499490d116dfad181

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c77a4b9cffb6215a15196ec499490d116dfad181