CVE-2013-2224

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free operation and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a sendmsg system call with the IP_RETOPTS option, as demonstrated by hemlock.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-3552.

CVSS v2.0 6.9 MEDIUM

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.4 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2013-07-04 14:55

Updated : 2023-02-12 20:43

NVD link : CVE-2013-2224

Mitre link : CVE-2013-2224

JSON object : View

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Products Affected

redhat

enterprise_linux

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