CVE-2013-1929
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 7, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 19, 2013
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3_read_vpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the Vital Product Data (VPD) data structure.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- USN-1834-1vendor-advisory
- MDVSA-2013:176vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949932
- SUSE-SU-2013:1473vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:1645vendor-advisory
- USN-1835-1vendor-advisory
- http://cansecwest.com/slides/2013/PrivateCore%20CSW%202013.pdf
- USN-1838-1vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1971vendor-advisory
- USN-1836-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424
- SUSE-SU-2013:1474vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.6
- FEDORA-2013-5368vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20130405 Re: CVE Request: tg3 VPD firmware -> driver injectionmailing-list
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