CVE-2013-2546

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2013-02-05
Bugzilla:
918512: kernel: crypto: info leaks in report API

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The report API in the crypto user configuration API in the Linux kernel through 3.8.2 uses an incorrect C library function for copying strings, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

Find out more about CVE-2013-2546 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

These issues do not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

These issues do affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 may address
this issue.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat MRG Grid for RHEL 6 Server v.2 (kernel-rt) RHSA-2013:0829 2013-05-20

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 realtime-kernel Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Not affected

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