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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2013-4470

Change History

CVE Modified by Red Hat, Inc. 2/02/2023 11:15:24 AM

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Changed Description 
The Linux kernel before 3.12, when UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) is enabled, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that uses the UDP_CORK option in a setsockopt system call and sends both short and long packets, related to the ip_ufo_append_data function in net/ipv4/ip_output.c and the ip6_ufo_append_data function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c.
 
CVE-2013-4470 Kernel: net: memory corruption with UDP_CORK and UFO
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Red Hat, Inc. (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

								
								
					

					

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c547dbf55d5f8cf615ccc0e7265e98db27d3fb8b [No Types Assigned]

								
								
					

					

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e93b7d748be887cd7639b113ba7d7ef792a7efb9 [No Types Assigned]

								
								
					

					

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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1801 [No Types Assigned]

								
								
					

					

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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0100 [No Types Assigned]

								
								
					

					

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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0284 [No Types Assigned]

								
								
					

					

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4470 [No Types Assigned]

								
								
					

					

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c547dbf55d5f8cf615ccc0e7265e98db27d3fb8b [Exploit, Patch]

								
							
							
								
							
						
								
							
								

								
								
					

					

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e93b7d748be887cd7639b113ba7d7ef792a7efb9 [Exploit, Patch]