The Bluetooth RFCOMM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.6...
Vulnerability 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.
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1805-1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/05/13
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9344a972961d1a6d2c04d9008b13617bcb6ec2ef
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f9432c5ec8b1e9a09b9b0e5569e3c73db8de432a
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9ad2de43f1aee7e7274a4e0d41465489299e344b
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