Uninitialized Length Variables Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Crypto API

CVE-2013-3076 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The crypto API in the Linux kernel through 3.9-rc8 does not initialize certain length variables, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call, related to the hash_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_hash.c and the skcipher_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_skcipher.c.

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