CVE-2012-6544

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2012-08-15
Bugzilla:
922414: CVE-2012-6544 Kernel: Bluetooth: HCI & L2CAP information leaks

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Bluetooth protocol stack in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not properly initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application that targets the (1) L2CAP or (2) HCI implementation.

Find out more about CVE-2012-6544 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of the kernel package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (kernel) RHSA-2013:1173 2013-08-27
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 (kernel) RHSA-2013:1195 2013-09-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2013:1034 2013-07-10

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 realtime-kernel Not affected

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