Vulnerability CVE-2013-7339
Published: 2014-03-24

Description:
The rds_ib_laddr_check function in net/rds/ib.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Linux Kernel rds prevent dereference of a NULL device
Sasha Levin
20.03.2014

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

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:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c2349758acf1874e4c2b93fe41d072336f1a31d0
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079214
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66351
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/20/14
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.8
http://secunia.com/advisories/59386
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c2349758acf1874e4c2b93fe41d072336f1a31d0
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