CVE-2012-6545: Linux Kernel

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Bluetooth RFCOMM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.6 does not properly initialize certain structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.5.7; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2013-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.