Vulnerability CVE-2013-4512
Published: 2013-11-12

Description:
Buffer overflow in the exitcode_proc_write function in arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging root privileges for a write operation.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Linux Kernel Multiple Security fixes
Nico
04.11.2013

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.7/10
6.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/04/22
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63510
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.12.bz2
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