CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-4300
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The scm_check_creds function in net/core/scm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11 performs a capability check in an incorrect namespace, which allows local users to gain privileges via PID spoofing.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.8.6 < 3.9)
• linux linux kernel 3.9
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d661684cf6820331feae71146c35da83d794467e Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/05/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004736 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d661684cf6820331feae71146c35da83d794467e Exploit, Patch
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.11.bz2 Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d661684cf6820331feae71146c35da83d794467e Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/05/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1004736 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d661684cf6820331feae71146c35da83d794467e Exploit, Patch
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.11.bz2 Patch