CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4220
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
The bad_mode function in arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9.5 on the ARM64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving an attempted register access that triggers an unexpected value in the Exception Syndrome Register (ESR).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.9.4)
• linux linux kernel 3.9.0
• linux linux kernel 3.9.1
• linux linux kernel 3.9.2
• linux linux kernel 3.9.3
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.5 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/08/12 Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996380 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 Exploit, Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.5 www.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/08/12 Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996380 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 Exploit, Patch