CVE-2013-1827

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

net/dccp/ccid.h in the Linux kernel before 3.5.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a certain (1) sender or (2) receiver getsockopt call.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2013-03-22 11:59:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2013-06-05 03:42:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 3.5.1

3.5.1

Linux Kernel 3.5.2

3.5.2

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=276bdb82dedb290511467a5a4fdbe9f0b52dce6f

Exploit, Patch

RHSA-2013:0744

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.4

[oss-security] 20130307 Re: CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info leaks, some NULL ptr derefs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919164

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/276bdb82dedb290511467a5a4fdbe9f0b52dce6f

Exploit, Patch

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