Description
net/bridge/br_mdb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.4 does not initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application.
References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c085c49920b2f900ba716b4ca1c1a55ece9872cc
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=923652
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c085c49920b2f900ba716b4ca1c1a55ece9872cc
- [oss-security] 20130320 Re: Linux kernel: net - three info leaks in rtnl mailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.4