cve/2012/CVE-2012-6548.md

CVE-2012-6548

Description

The udf_encode_fh function in fs/udf/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory via a crafted application.

POC

Reference

• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1808-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1814-1

Github

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