2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
5.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/04/3
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1970-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1972-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1973-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1992-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1993-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981220
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2