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CVE-2012-6539

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The dev_ifconf function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 3.5.7; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+183)

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=43da5f2e0d0c69ded3d51907d9552310a6b545e8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1792-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1798-1
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43da5f2e0d0c69ded3d51907d9552310a6b545e8
• 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=43da5f2e0d0c69ded3d51907d9552310a6b545e8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1792-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1798-1
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/43da5f2e0d0c69ded3d51907d9552310a6b545e8
• https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2

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