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USN-1994-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability

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USN-1994-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

06/07/2013

Created

07/25/2018

Added

04/08/2014

Modified

07/09/2020

Description

The HP Smart Array controller disk-array driver and Compaq SMART2 controller disk-array driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 do not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via (1) a crafted IDAGETPCIINFO command for a /dev/ida device, related to the ida_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/cpqarray.c or (2) a crafted CCISS_PASSTHRU32 command for a /dev/cciss device, related to the cciss_ioctl32_passthru function in drivers/block/cciss.c.

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-5-0-42-generic

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2013-2147
CVE - 2013-2147
RHSA-2013:1166
USN-1994-1

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