PT-2013-4908 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Prasad Pandit · CVE-2013-4220 · Published 2013-08-25 · Updated 2023-02-13

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.9.5

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash. This occurs via vectors involving an attempted register access that triggers an unexpected value in the Exception Syndrome Register (ESR), specifically through the bad mode function in arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c on the ARM64 platform.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.9.5, update to version 3.9.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4220

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 · Exploit
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/08/12 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4220 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996380 · Note
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.5 · Note
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 · Note