CVE-2012-6536

net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not verify that the actual Netlink message length is consistent with a certain header field, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a (1) new or (2) updated state.

Date published : 2013-03-14

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720