CVE-2013-2237
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-2237
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2013-2237.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2013-2237
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:12:10Z
- Published
- 2013-07-04T21:55:01Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-16T01:39:22Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.
- References
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1970-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1972-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1973-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1992-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1993-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981220
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/04/3