CVE-2013-4515: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bcm_char_ioctl function in drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via an IOCTL_BCM_GET_DEVICE_DRIVER_INFO ioctl call.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.11.7; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.