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.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 6.9/10
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CAffected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
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
Timeline
- Published
- Jul 4, 2013
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified