CVE-2012-3430
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 1.0%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDOct 3
1st PoCJul 26
exploitation probability
1.0%top 42% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
The rds_recvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom or (2) recvmsg system call on an RDS socket.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/37543⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820039http://secunia.com/advisories/50633http://secunia.com/advisories/50732http://secunia.com/advisories/50811https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.htmlhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.0.44http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/26/5http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1567-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1568-1