CVE-2009-0676

CVE-2009-0676 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The sock_getsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via an SO_BSDCOMPAT getsockopt request.

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