CVE-2012-6537
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6537
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2012-6537.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2012-6537
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2013-03-15T20:55:07Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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net/xfrm/xfrmuser.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 CAPNET_ADMIN capability.
- References
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1792-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1798-1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1f86840f897717f86d523a13e99a447e6a5d2fa5
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7b789836f434c87168eab067cfbed1ec4783dffd
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f778a636713a435d3a922c60b1622a91136560c1
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1f86840f897717f86d523a13e99a447e6a5d2fa5
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7b789836f434c87168eab067cfbed1ec4783dffd
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f778a636713a435d3a922c60b1622a91136560c1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13