CVE-2013-6432
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 9, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 4, 2013
Description
The ping_recvmsg function in net/ipv4/ping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 does not properly interact with read system calls on ping sockets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging unspecified privileges to execute a crafted application.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- USN-2113-1vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20131206 Re: CVE request: Kernel: ping: NULL pointer dereference on write to msg_namemailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.4
- USN-2117-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039046
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cf970c002d270c36202bd5b9c2804d3097a52da0
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0205vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cf970c002d270c36202bd5b9c2804d3097a52da0
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