CVE-2006-1342 Information

Description

net/ipv4/af_inet.c in Linux kernel 2.4 does not clear sockaddr_in.sin_zero before returning IPv4 socket names from the (1) getsockname (2) getpeername and (3) accept functions which allows local users to obtain portions of potentially sensitive memory.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=114148078223594&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/19357 http://secunia.com/advisories/20398 http://secunia.com/advisories/21035 http://secunia.com/advisories/22875 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/marcelo/linux-2.4.git;a=commit;h=09d3b3dcfa80c9094f1748c1be064b9326c9ef2b http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0579.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0580.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451404/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451417/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451419/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451426/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17203 http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-202-200610-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-213-200610-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-254-200610-patch.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4502