CVE-2013-1773

medium
Published 2013-02-28 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.2
VIR risk
6.2

Description

Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1773

Exploits

Exploit-DB

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.2.15-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.2.15-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.2.15-1
debian debiansidfixed3.2.15-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.2.15-1
linux linux-kernelaffected
linux linux-kernel3.0affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.1affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.2affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.3affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.4affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.5affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.6affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.7affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.8affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.9affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.10affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.11affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.12affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.13affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.14affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.15affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.16affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.17affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.18affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.19affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.20affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.21affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.22affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.23affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.24affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.25affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.26affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.27affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.28affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.29affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.30affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.31affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.32affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.33affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.34affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.35affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.36affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.37affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.38affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.39affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.40affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.41affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.42affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.43affected
linux linux-kernel3.0.44affected
linux linux-kernel3.1affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.1affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.2affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.3affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.4affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.5affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.6affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.7affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.8affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.9affected
linux linux-kernel3.1.10affected
linux linux-kernel3.2affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.1affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.2affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.3affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.4affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.5affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.6affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.7affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.8affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.9affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.10affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.11affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.12affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.13affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.14affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.15affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.16affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.17affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.18affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.19affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.20affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.21affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.22affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.23affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.24affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.25affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.26affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.27affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.28affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.29affected
linux linux-kernel3.2.30affected
linux linux-kernel3.3affected
redhat rhel6.0affected

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.