VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-1342

CVSS score2.1 LOW
EPSS probability0.73%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-03-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

net/ipv4/af_inet.c in Linux kernel 2.4 does not clear sockaddr_in.sin_zero before returning IPv4 socket names from the (1) getsockname, (2) getpeername, and (3) accept functions, which allows local users to obtain portions of potentially sensitive memory.

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