CVE-2013-6382

Published Nov 27, 2013

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description
Multiple buffer underflows in the XFS implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for a (1) XFS_IOC_ATTRLIST_BY_HANDLE or (2) XFS_IOC_ATTRLIST_BY_HANDLE_32 ioctl call with a crafted length value, related to the xfs_attrlist_by_handle function in fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c and the xfs_compat_attrlist_by_handle function in fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
1.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-119

Social media

Hype score
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