Uninitialized Structures Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2012-6537 · LOW Severity

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

net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

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