PT-2013-4009 · Linux+2 · Linux Kernel+2

Kees Cook

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Published

2013-09-13

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Updated

2014-04-02

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CVE-2013-2890

CVSS v2.0

4.7

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.12
Description The issue allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted device, specifically through the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem when CONFIG HID SONY is enabled. This is due to a heap-based out-of-bounds write in the drivers/hid/hid-sony.c file.
Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 3.12, update to version 3.12 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1422
CVE-2013-2890

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Linux Kernel
Suse