The dgram_recvmsg function in net/ieee802154/dgram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length value without ensuring…

Description

The dgram_recvmsg function in net/ieee802154/dgram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length value without ensuring that an associated data structure has been initialized, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (19)

• USN-2135-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2138-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2108-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2113-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2141-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2110-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2136-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2139-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bceaa90240b6019ed73b49965eac7d167610be69 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2117-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035875 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2109-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2107-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bceaa90240b6019ed73b49965eac7d167610be69 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1029566 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20131128 Re: CVE Request: Linux kernel: net: uninitialised memory leakage (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 64747 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• linux-kernel-cve20137281-info-disc(90222) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 18:01 UTC.