Uninitialized Data Structure Vulnerability in FreeBSD Kernel's NAND Driver

Uninitialized Data Structure Vulnerability in FreeBSD Kernel's NAND Driver

CVE-2013-6832 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The nand_ioctl function in sys/dev/nand/nand_geom.c in the nand driver in the kernel in FreeBSD 10 and earlier does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted ioctl call.

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