{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2012-09-19T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "Kernel: xfrm_user: info leak in copy_to_user_auth",
    "id" : "922253",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922253"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "1.5",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The copy_to_user_auth function in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 uses an incorrect C library function for copying a string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability." ],
  "statement" : "This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with\nRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.\nThis issue affects the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat\nEnterprise Linux 6 . This issue has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2013-04-23T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0744",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-358.6.1.el6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6538\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6538" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-6538",
  "csaw" : false
}