CVE-2013-3076
The crypto API in the Linux kernel through 3.9-rc8 does not initialize certain length variables, which allows local users to obtain…
- 4.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The crypto API in the Linux kernel through 3.9-rc8 does not initialize certain length variables, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call, related to the hash_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_hash.c and the skcipher_recvmsg function in crypto/algif_skcipher.c.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
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 | Medium4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1187 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-6537 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-6999 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-1837-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130414 Linux kernel: more net info leak fixes for v3.9 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/72a763d805a48ac8c0bf48fdb510e84c12de51fe (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2013:1182 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-3014 (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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