CVE-2013-3228

The irda_recvmsg_dgram function in net/irda/af_irda.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=5ae94c0d2f0bed41d6718be743985d61b7f5c47d

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5ae94c0d2f0bed41d6718be743985d61b7f5c47d