CVE-2012-6536
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6536
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2012-6536.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2012-6536
- Downstream
- Published
- 2013-03-15T20:55:05Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-10T03:42:35.216867Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not verify that the actual Netlink message length is consistent with a certain header field, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAPNET_ADMIN capability and providing a (1) new or (2) updated state.
- References
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- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13