CVE-2013-2224

CVE Details

Release Date:

2013-06-30

Description

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free operation and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a sendmsg system call with the IP_RETOPTS option, as demonstrated by hemlock.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-3552.

See more information about CVE-2013-2224 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.9	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2013-1166	2013-08-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2013-1166-1	2013-08-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2013-1166-1	2013-08-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5)	ELSA-2013-1166	2013-08-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2013-1166-1	2013-08-21
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-348.16.1.el5)	ELSA-2013-1166	2013-08-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2013-1173	2013-08-27

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