CVE-2013-2148 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/128 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/05/26 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1929-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1930-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=971258