CVE-2013-2017

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.

The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-05-03 11:57:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-05-23 03:29:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.33

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Release Candidate 1

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Release Candidate 2

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Release Candidate 3

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Release Candidate 4

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Release Candidate 5

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Release Candidate 6

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Release Candidate 7

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Release Candidate 8

2.6.33

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.1

2.6.33.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.2

2.6.33.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.3

2.6.33.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.4

2.6.33.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.5

2.6.33.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.6

2.6.33.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.7

2.6.33.7

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.8

2.6.33.8

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.9

2.6.33.9

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.10

2.6.33.10

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.11

2.6.33.11

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.12

2.6.33.12

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.13

2.6.33.13

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.14

2.6.33.14

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.15

2.6.33.15

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.16

2.6.33.16

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.17

2.6.33.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.18

2.6.33.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.33.19

2.6.33.19

Linux Kernel

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867

[oss-security] 20130429 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: veth: double-free in case of congestion

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957705

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K39655464

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