CVE-2012-6545

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 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.

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)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5, 6.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1805-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a
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=9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef

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