CVE-2013-7264
Kernel: net: leakage of uninitialized memory to user-space via recv syscalls
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · November 18, 2013
Updated · January 8, 2026
Description
The l2tp_ip_recvmsg function in net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length value before 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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CWE not specified