CVE-2013-7446

medium

Published 2015-12-28 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in net/unix/af_unix.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.3 allows local users to bypass intended AF_UNIX socket permissions or cause a denial of service (panic) via crafted epoll_ctl calls.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

53%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.2.6-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.2.6-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.2.6-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.2.6-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.2.6-2`
linux-kernel		affected

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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