Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.