CVE-2013-2224

high

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-07-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High