CVE-2013-7265: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pn_recvmsg function in net/phonet/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length value before ensuring that an associated data structure has been initialized, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.12.3; 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 2014-01-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.