Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2006-1342

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.

EPSS: 0.007 (49.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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