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CVE-2012-6548

Public on 2013-03-15
Modified on 2014-09-15
Description

The udf_encode_fh function in fs/udf/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory via a crafted application.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
1.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2013-08-13 21:32 ALAS-2013-218

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N