CVE-2012-6548 (GCVE-0-2012-6548)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-03-14 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:36
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The udf_encode_fh function in fs/udf/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory via a crafted application.
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