{"id":"CVE-2013-2237","details":"The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.","modified":"2026-04-16T01:39:22.517892947Z","published":"2013-07-04T21:55:01Z","withdrawn":"2026-01-27T04:12:10.764157Z","related":["SUSE-RU-2015:0621-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0481-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0581-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0652-1","SUSE-SU-2015:0736-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1174-1","SUSE-SU-2015:1376-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1970-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1972-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1973-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1992-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1993-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981220"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab2a40"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/04/3"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}