CVE-2013-3222

The vcc_recvmsg function in net/atm/common.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=9b3e617f3df53822345a8573b6d358f6b9e5ed87

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9b3e617f3df53822345a8573b6d358f6b9e5ed87