CVE-2013-2188 | BDVDB-2026-56583 Detail

Description#

A certain Red Hat patch to the do_filp_open function in fs/namei.c in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle failure to obtain write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging access to a filesystem that is mounted read-only.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975406

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12013-07-16Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.