National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2013-2546

Overview

The report API in the crypto user configuration API in the Linux kernel through 3.8.2 uses an incorrect C library function for copying strings, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9a5467bf7b6e9e02ec9c3da4e23747c05faeaac6

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9a5467bf7b6e9e02ec9c3da4e23747c05faeaac6

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1797-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1797-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1796-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1796-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1795-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1795-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1794-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1794-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1793-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1793-1

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=9a5467bf7b6e9e02ec9c3da4e23747c05faeaac6

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9a5467bf7b6e9e02ec9c3da4e23747c05faeaac6