CVE-2013-2234 Information

Description

The (1) key_notify_sa_flush and (2) key_notify_policy_flush functions in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 do not initialize certain structure members which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify interface of an IPSec key_socket.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a5cc68f3d63306d0d288f31edfc2ae6ef8ecd887 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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/02/7 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1938-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1941-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1942-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1943-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1944-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1945-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1946-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1947-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980995 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a5cc68f3d63306d0d288f31edfc2ae6ef8ecd887 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.10.bz2