Vulnerability CVE-2013-4514
Published: 2013-11-12

Description:
Multiple buffer overflows in drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a long station-name string, related to the (1) wvlan_uil_put_info and (2) wvlan_set_station_nickname functions.

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=b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/04/22
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63509
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2068-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2069-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2070-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2071-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2072-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2073-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2074-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2075-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2076-1
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.12.bz2
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