CVE-2013-4312

MEDIUM

Oracle Linux < 4.4 - Memory Corruption

Title source: rule

Description

The Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to bypass file-descriptor limits and cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending each descriptor over a UNIX socket before closing it, related to net/unix/af_unix.c and net/unix/garbage.c.

References (20)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0855.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.1

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2929-2

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2931-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2932-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2967-2

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297813

[Vendor Advisory] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593

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[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4312

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82986

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176464.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176484.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3448

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 7.2%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-119

Status draft

Affected Products (4)

oracle/linux

oracle/linux

oracle/linux

linux/linux_kernel < 4.4

Timeline

Published Feb 08, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026