CVE-2013-3227
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-3227
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2013-3227.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2013-3227
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:11:38.991280Z
- Published
- 2013-04-22T11:41:01Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:11:38.991280Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The caifseqpktrecvmsg function in net/caif/caif_socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.
- References
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- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1837-1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2d6fbfe733f35c6b355c216644e08e149c61b271
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2d6fbfe733f35c6b355c216644e08e149c61b271
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107