Vulnerability Details CVE-2013-2224
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 40.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 6.9
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936
Products affected by CVE-2013-2224
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0