CVE-2013-2224

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 4
Modified
Published: 04 Jul 2013, 21:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 15:27

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
28/100
CVSS Score
6.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.18% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

04 Jul 2013, 21:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 15:27
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0MEDIUMScore: 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.18% Percentile: 40%

Affected Systems

  • redhatenterprise_linux

    6.0

References (5)