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kernel: information disclosure

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2012-3430
Created:August 6, 2012 Updated:October 3, 2012
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

Two similar issues:

1) Reported by Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford: recvfrom() on an RDS socket can disclose sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)-sizeof(struct sockaddr_in) bytes of kernel stack to userspace when receiving a datagram.

2) Reported by Jay Fenlason: recv{from,msg}() on an RDS socket can disclose sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) bytes of kernel stack to userspace when other code paths are taken.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-11348 2012-08-05
Mageia MGASA-2012-0237 2012-08-23
Ubuntu USN-1567-1 2012-09-14
Ubuntu USN-1568-1 2012-09-14
Ubuntu USN-1572-1 2012-09-18
Ubuntu USN-1573-1 2012-09-18
Ubuntu USN-1574-1 2012-09-19
Ubuntu USN-1575-1 2012-09-19
Ubuntu USN-1577-1 2012-09-21
Ubuntu USN-1578-1 2012-09-21
Ubuntu USN-1580-1 2012-09-21
Ubuntu USN-1579-1 2012-09-21
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1304-01 2012-09-25
CentOS CESA-2012:1304 2012-09-26
Scientific Linux SL-kern-20120926 2012-09-26
Oracle ELSA-2012-1304 2012-09-26
Oracle ELSA-2012-2034 2012-09-28
Oracle ELSA-2012-2034 2012-09-27
Oracle ELSA-2012-2035 2012-09-28
Oracle ELSA-2012-2035 2012-09-28
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1323-01 2012-10-02
CentOS CESA-2012:1323 2012-10-03
Scientific Linux SL-kern-20121003 2012-10-03
Oracle ELSA-2012-1323 2012-10-03
Oracle ELSA-2012-1323 2012-10-04
Oracle ELSA-2012-2038 2012-10-19
Oracle ELSA-2012-2038 2012-10-20
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1491-01 2012-12-04
Oracle ELSA-2013-2507 2013-02-28

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