CVE-2013-2017
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 3, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 19, 2013
Description
The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957705
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34
- [oss-security] 20130429 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: veth: double-free in case of congestionmailing-list
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K39655464
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