<p>Upgrade <code>Oracle:5</code> <code>kernel-uek-debug</code> to version 0:2.6.32-400.29.2.el5uek or higher.<br>This issue was patched in <code>ELSA-2013-2537</code>.</p>

Information Exposure Affecting kernel-uek-debug package, versions <0:2.6.32-400.29.2.el5uek

Threat Intelligence

0.12% (47^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE5-KERNELUEKDEBUG-2476826
published 10 Apr 2022
disclosed 15 Mar 2013

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Introduced: 15 Mar 2013

CVE-2012-6548 Open this link in a new tab CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:5 kernel-uek-debug to version 0:2.6.32-400.29.2.el5uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2013-2537.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-debug package and not the kernel-uek-debug package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

Local
Attack Complexity (AC)

Low
Privileges Required (PR)

None
User Interaction (UI)

Required

Scope (S)

Unchanged

Confidentiality (C)

Low
Integrity (I)

None
Availability (A)

None