National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-6545

Overview

The Bluetooth RFCOMM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not properly initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1808-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1805-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1805-1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20130305 CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefs

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef