| Description: | The llc_ui_getname function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 has an incorrect return value in certain circumstances, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application that leverages an uninitialized pointer argument. Mathias Krause discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's getsockname implementation for Logical Link Layer (llc) sockets. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine some of the kernel's stack memory.
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