CVE-2013-7269

2014-01-0611:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

4.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

10.1%

JSON

The nr_recvmsg function in net/netrom/af_netrom.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length value without ensuring that an associated data structure has been initialized, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call.

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