Security Advisory

CVE-2013-2224

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-07-04 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 15:27:41

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free operation and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a sendmsg system call with the IP_RETOPTS option, as demonstrated by hemlock.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-3552.

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