CVE-2013-2147 Information

Description

The HP Smart Array controller disk-array driver and Compaq SMART2 controller disk-array driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 do not initialize certain data structures which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via (1) a crafted IDAGETPCIINFO command for a /dev/ida device related to the ida_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/cpqarray.c or (2) a crafted CCISS_PASSTHRU32 command for a /dev/cciss device related to the cciss_ioctl32_passthru function in drivers/block/cciss.c.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/127 http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/131 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/05/25 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1994-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1996-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1997-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1999-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2015-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2016-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2017-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2020-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2023-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2050-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971242