PT-2013-3582 · Red Hat+1 · Red Hat+1
Mateusz Guzik
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Published
2013-06-10
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Updated
2019-04-22
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CVE-2013-2188
CVSS v2.0
4.7
Medium
| Vector | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 kernel package versions prior to 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6
Description
The issue is related to a problem in the do filp open function in fs/namei.c, where failure to obtain write permissions is not handled properly. This can be exploited by local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash, by accessing a filesystem that is mounted read-only.
Recommendations
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 kernel package versions prior to 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6, update to version 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 or later to resolve the issue.
Fix
DoS
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Affected Products
Centos
Red Hat