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CVE-2012-6537
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive…
Low1.9EPSS 0.36%
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- mitre
Description
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f778a636713a435d3a922c60b1622a91136560c1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130305 CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefs (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7b789836f434c87168eab067cfbed1ec4783dffd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1792-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0744 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1f86840f897717f86d523a13e99a447e6a5d2fa5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1798-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1f86840f897717f86d523a13e99a447e6a5d2fa5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f778a636713a435d3a922c60b1622a91136560c1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7b789836f434c87168eab067cfbed1ec4783dffd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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