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CVE-2012-3430

Public on 2012-08-21
Modified on 2014-09-14
Description

The rds_recvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom or (2) recvmsg system call on an RDS socket.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2012-10-08 10:43 ALAS-2012-133
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2012-08-21 21:04 ALAS-2012-118

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N