CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1929

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2013-06-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-06-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3_read_vpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the Vital Product Data (VPD) data structure.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.8.5) • linux linux kernel 3.8.0 • linux linux kernel 3.8.1 • linux linux kernel 3.8.2 • linux linux kernel 3.8.3 • linux linux kernel 3.8.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References