Security Advisory

CVE-2013-6763

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-11-12 01:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 17:46:23

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

The uio_mmap_physical function in drivers/uio/uio.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not validate the size of a memory block, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via crafted mmap operations, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4511.

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