CVE-2013-2148

UNKNOWN

The fill_event_metadata function in fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user

Published Jun 7, 2013

Modified 1 years ago

Details

The fill_event_metadata function in fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a read operation on the fanotify descriptor.

References

ADVISORY

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html

ADVISORY

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html

ADVISORY

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html

WEB

http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/128

WEB

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/05/26

ADVISORY