CVE-2012-6548

The udf_encode_fh function in fs/udf/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory via a crafted application.

Date published : 2013-03-14

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0143fc5e9f6f5aad4764801015bc8d4b4a278200

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0143fc5e9f6f5aad4764801015bc8d4b4a278200