{"id":"CVE-2013-3237","details":"The vsock_stream_sendmsg function in net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:43:21.344383Z","published":"2013-04-22T11:41:01Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d5e0d0f607a7a029c6563a0470d88255c89a8d11"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/14/107"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d5e0d0f607a7a029c6563a0470d88255c89a8d11"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/14/3"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}