CVE-2013-2224
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2224
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 6.0 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2224
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.