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CVE-2013-0871

Date: February 17, 2013

Race condition in the ptrace functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.7.5 allows local users to gain privileges via a PTRACE_SETREGS ptrace system call in a crafted application, as demonstrated by ptrace_death.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (28)

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.5

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0695.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1740-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00018.html

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1741-1

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2632

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0661.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0871

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1744-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1745-1

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911937

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1742-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1743-1

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0871

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0567.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00022.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1739-1

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0662.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-0871

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/15/16

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1736-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1738-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1737-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-0871

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2013-0871

Date: February 17, 2013

Language: C

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