CVE-2013-2224

Published Jul 4, 2013

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description: 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.
Source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.9
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.4
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

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  {
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      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "2F6AB192-9D7D-4A9A-8995-E53A9DE9EAFC"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References