CVE-2013-3227

The caif_seqpkt_recvmsg function in net/caif/caif_socket.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=2d6fbfe733f35c6b355c216644e08e149c61b271

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2d6fbfe733f35c6b355c216644e08e149c61b271