CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1826
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-03-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
The xfrm_state_netlink function in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.7 does not properly handle error conditions in dump_one_state function calls, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.5.6)
• linux linux kernel 3.5.1
• linux linux kernel 3.5.2
• linux linux kernel 3.5.3
• linux linux kernel 3.5.4
• linux linux kernel 3.5.5
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=864745d291b5ba80ea0bd0edcbe67273de368836 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.7 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/07/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1829-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919384 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/864745d291b5ba80ea0bd0edcbe67273de368836 github.com
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=864745d291b5ba80ea0bd0edcbe67273de368836 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.7 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/07/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1829-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919384 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/864745d291b5ba80ea0bd0edcbe67273de368836 github.com