Bug 922314 (CVE-2012-6541)

Summary: CVE-2012-6541 Kernel: dccp: informaion leak via getsockopt(DCCP_SOCKOPT_CCID_TX_INFO)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: agordeev, anton, bhu, davej, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, mcressma, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, williams
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Description Prasad Pandit 2013-03-16 08:47:54 UTC 
Linux kernel built with Datagram Congestion Control Protocol(DCCP) with
the TCP-Friendly Rate Control(TRFC) mechanism is vulnerable to an information
leakage flaw. It occurs while doing an getsockopt call on the CCID3 socket.

A user/program could use this flaw to leak kernel memory bytes.

Upstream fix:
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 -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b07f8eb75aa3097cdfd4f6eac3da49db787381d

Reference:
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 -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/21
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2013-03-16 08:53:05 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.