Bug 924693 (CVE-2013-2636) - CVE-2013-2636 kernel: Information leak in the Linux ethernet bridge component
Summary: CVE-2013-2636 kernel: Information leak in the Linux ethernet bridge component
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-2636
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 858947
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Reported: 2013-03-22 10:50 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-03-22 11:50:05 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-22 10:50:52 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2636 to the following vulnerability:

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

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2636
[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=c085c49920b2f900ba716b4ca1c1a55ece9872cc
[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/c085c49920b2f900ba716b4ca1c1a55ece9872cc
Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2013-03-22 11:50:05 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable.

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