CVE-2013-4470
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 4, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 12, 2013
Description
The Linux kernel before 3.12, when UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) is enabled, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that uses the UDP_CORK option in a setsockopt system call and sends both short and long packets, related to the ip_ufo_append_data function in net/ipv4/ip_output.c and the ip6_ufo_append_data function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
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=c547dbf55d5f8cf615ccc0e7265e98db27d3fb8b
- [oss-security] 20131025 Re: CVE request: Linux kernel: net: memory corruption with UDP_CORK and UFOmailing-list
- USN-2043-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2073-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2040-1vendor-advisory
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.12.bz2
- USN-2069-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2044-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:1801vendor-advisory
- USN-2066-1vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2014:0459vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023477
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c547dbf55d5f8cf615ccc0e7265e98db27d3fb8b
- USN-2049-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2014:0284vendor-advisory
- 63359vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e93b7d748be887cd7639b113ba7d7ef792a7efb9
- USN-2050-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2042-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e93b7d748be887cd7639b113ba7d7ef792a7efb9
- RHSA-2014:0100vendor-advisory
- USN-2067-1vendor-advisory
- USN-2046-1vendor-advisory
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