Information Exposure Affecting kernel-uek-debug package, versions <0:2.6.32-400.26.2.el5uek
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE5-KERNELUEKDEBUG-2479094
- published 10 Apr 2022
- disclosed 15 Mar 2013
Introduced: 15 Mar 2013
CVE-2012-6547 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Oracle:5
kernel-uek-debug
to version 0:2.6.32-400.26.2.el5uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2013-2520
.
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 __tun_chr_ioctl function in drivers/net/tun.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.
References
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2012-6547.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0744.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0747.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0747-1.html
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a117dacde0288f3ec60b6e5bcedae8fa37ee0dfc
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a117dacde0288f3ec60b6e5bcedae8fa37ee0dfc
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a117dacde0288f3ec60b6e5bcedae8fa37ee0dfc