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CVE-2013-1792

Date: March 22, 2013

Race condition in the install_user_keyrings function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via crafted keyctl system calls that trigger keyring operations in simultaneous threads.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.1

Related Resources (22)

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1793-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1794-1

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1792

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1795-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1796-1

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0da9dfdd2cd9889201bc6f6f43580c99165cd087

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.3

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1792-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1792

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916646

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0da9dfdd2cd9889201bc6f6f43580c99165cd087

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/07/1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00002.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1788-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1787-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1797-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1798-1

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-1792

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-1792

Severity Score

5.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

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

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.7
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2013-1792

Date: March 22, 2013

Language: C

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CVSS v2

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