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CVE-2013-6382

Public on 2013-11-27
Modified on 2014-09-16
Description

Multiple buffer underflows in the XFS implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for a (1) XFS_IOC_ATTRLIST_BY_HANDLE or (2) XFS_IOC_ATTRLIST_BY_HANDLE_32 ioctl call with a crafted length value, related to the xfs_attrlist_by_handle function in fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c and the xfs_compat_attrlist_by_handle function in fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl32.c.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2013-12-11 20:33 ALAS-2013-258

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.0 AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C