CVE-2013-0349

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The hidp_setup_hid function in net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.6 does not properly copy a certain name field, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by setting a long name and making an HIDPCONNADD ioctl call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.7.5; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+169)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0a9ab9bdb3e891762553f667066190c1d22ad62b
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/23/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1805-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914298
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0a9ab9bdb3e891762553f667066190c1d22ad62b
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0a9ab9bdb3e891762553f667066190c1d22ad62b
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/23/3

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