SB2013022201 - NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernel
Published: February 22, 2013 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013022201
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-0313)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error. A remote attacker can trigger denial of service conditions via an attempted removexattr operation on an inode of a sockfs filesystem.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a67adb997419fb53540d4a4f79c6471c60bc69b6
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/20/16
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913266
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a67adb997419fb53540d4a4f79c6471c60bc69b6