The (1) key_notify_sa_flush and (2) key_notify_policy_flush functions in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 do not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify interface of an IPSec key_socket.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2013-08-13 21:32 | ALAS-2013-218 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 1.7 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |