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CVE-2013-2224

Date: July 4, 2013

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2224
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2224
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-2224

Severity Score

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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