CVE-2013-6431
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 9, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 4, 2013
Description
The fib6_add function in net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.5 does not properly implement error-code encoding, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an IPv6 SIOCADDRT ioctl call.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.11.5
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ae7b4e1f213aa659aedf9c6ecad0bf5f0476e1e2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039054
- [oss-security] 20131206 Re: CVE request: Linux kernel: net: fib: fib6_add: potential NULL pointer dereferencemailing-list
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0204vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ae7b4e1f213aa659aedf9c6ecad0bf5f0476e1e2
- RHSA-2014:0100vendor-advisory
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