Bug 922353 (CVE-2012-6548) - CVE-2012-6548 Kernel: udf: information leak on export
Summary: CVE-2012-6548 Kernel: udf: information leak on export
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-6548
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: 922354 922355
Blocks: 858947
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-16 11:17 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:54 UTC (History)
24 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-06-09 18:09:11 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
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 Prasad Pandit 2013-03-16 11:17:50 UTC 
Linux kernel built with UDF file system support is vulnerable to an
information leakage flaw. It occurs while doing an UDF export operation
via udf_encode_fh routine.

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

Upstream fix:
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 -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/0143fc5e9f6f5aad4764801015bc8d4b4a278200

Reference:
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 -> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/14/21
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2013-03-16 11:25:14 UTC 
Statement:

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

This issue affects the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may address this issue.
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2013-07-16 17:28:30 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 4 errata-xmlrpc 2013-07-16 18:25:33 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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