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CVE-2012-6545
The Bluetooth RFCOMM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not properly initialize certain structures, which allows local…
Low1.9EPSS 0.37%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1805-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130305 CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefs (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1808-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1645 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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