CVE-2012-3430
Status: ModifiedLow (2.1)—Exploit
Severity2.1Low · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability0.95 %higher than 61% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB
The rds_recvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom or (2) recvmsg system call on an RDS socket.
CVSS
- Base score
- 2.1
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 0.95 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 61
- Score date
- 10/20/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Published on Exploit-DB · Linux Kernel 2.6.x - 'rds_recvmsg()' Local Information Disclosure (7/26/2012)
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-200
References
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- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50633
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50732
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50811
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.0.44
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/26/5
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1567-1
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820039
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
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- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html
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