CVE-2009-3001

CVE-2009-3001 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The llc_ui_getname function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc7 and earlier does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to read the contents of some kernel memory locations by calling getsockname on an AF_LLC socket.

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