Bug 924689 (CVE-2013-2634) - CVE-2013-2634 kernel: Information leak in the Data Center Bridging (DCB) component
Summary: CVE-2013-2634 kernel: Information leak in the Data Center Bridging (DCB) comp...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-2634
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 923657 923659 923660 923661 923662
Blocks: 858947
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-22 10:48 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:53 UTC (History)
26 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-09 18:03:31 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0829 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2013-05-20 20:47:02 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1051 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update 2013-07-16 22:22:03 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1080 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update 2013-07-16 21:21:21 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-22 10:48:14 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2634 to the following vulnerability:

net/dcb/dcbnl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.4 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2634
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/20/1
[3] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=29cd8ae0e1a39e239a3a7b67da1986add1199fc0
[4] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.4
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923652
[6] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/29cd8ae0e1a39e239a3a7b67da1986add1199fc0

Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2013-03-22 11:43:48 UTC
Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of the kernel package as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue does affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 may address this
issue.

Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2013-03-22 11:44:24 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 923662]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-20 16:54:10 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2013:0829 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0829.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-07-16 17:28:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2013:1080 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1080.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-07-16 18:27:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1051 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1051.html


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