CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-2188

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2013-07-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-07-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the do_filp_open function in fs/namei.c in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle failure to obtain write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging access to a filesystem that is mounted read-only.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 6.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References