CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1979
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-05-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The scm_set_cred function in include/net/scm.h in the Linux kernel before 3.8.11 uses incorrect uid and gid values during credentials passing, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.8.10)
• 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
• linux linux kernel 3.8.5
• linux linux kernel 3.8.6
• linux linux kernel 3.8.7
• linux linux kernel 3.8.8
• linux linux kernel 3.8.9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=83f1b4ba917db5dc5a061a44b3403ddb6e783494 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.11 www.kernel.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955629 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/83f1b4ba917db5dc5a061a44b3403ddb6e783494 github.com
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=83f1b4ba917db5dc5a061a44b3403ddb6e783494 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/103750.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104480.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.11 www.kernel.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955629 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/83f1b4ba917db5dc5a061a44b3403ddb6e783494 github.com