Security Advisory

CVE-2013-1979

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-05-03 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 15:20:37

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

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.

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