CVE-2013-3225

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-3225
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-04-22 11:41:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe rfcomm_sock_recvmsg function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9 rc4 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.9 rc5 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All rc6 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix missing msg_namelen update in rfcomm_sock_rec… · torvalds/linux@e11e045 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: kernel-3.8.11-100.fc17 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: kernel-3.8.8-203.fc18 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:176 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2013:1187-1: important: 3.0.80 kernel up af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
USN-1837-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 3.9-rc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lkml.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:1182-1: important: kernel update for SL af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
git.kernel.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
oss-security - Linux kernel: more net info leak fixes for v3.9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MITRE git.kernel.org
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