CVE-2013-3226

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.9-rc7

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory. This is due to the sco sock recvmsg function in net/bluetooth/sco.c not initializing a certain length variable, which can be exploited via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 3.9-rc7, update to version 3.9-rc7 or later to resolve the issue.