CVE-2012-6548 in Linux Kernelinfo

Summary

The udf_encode_fh function in fs/udf/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory via a crafted application.

Reservation

03/14/2013

Disclosure

03/15/2013

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