CVE-2012-6548 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0143fc5e9f6f5aad4764801015bc8d4b4a278200 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1805-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1809-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1811-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1812-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1813-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1814-1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0143fc5e9f6f5aad4764801015bc8d4b4a278200 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2