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Bug 924689 - (CVE-2013-2634) CVE-2013-2634 kernel: Information leak in the Data Center Bridging (DCB) component
CVE-2013-2634 kernel: Information leak in the Data Center Bridging (DCB) comp...
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20130309,reported=2...
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Depends On: 923657 923659 923660 923661 923662
Blocks: 858947
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Reported: 2013-03-22 06:48 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2015-07-31 03:02 EDT (History)
26 users (show)

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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0829 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2013-05-20 16:47:02 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1051 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update 2013-07-16 18:22:03 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1080 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update 2013-07-16 17:21:21 EDT

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-22 06:48:14 EDT
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 07:43:48 EDT
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 07:44:24 EDT
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 923662]
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-05-20 12:54:10 EDT
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 13:28:48 EDT
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 14:27:12 EDT
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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