CVE-2013-1773

CVE Details

Release Date:	2012-12-09
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.

See more information about CVE-2013-1773 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.2
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2013-2513	2013-04-11
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2013-0744	2013-04-23
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2013-2513	2013-04-11