CVE-2013-2224 | BDVDB-2026-56429 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12013-07-04Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.