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CVE-2013-2224 (GCVE-0-2013-2224)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-07-04 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:27
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2013-06-30 00:00
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