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CVE-2013-1929

Date: June 7, 2013

Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3_read_vpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the Vital Product Data (VPD) data structure.

Language: C

Severity Score

4.9

Related Resources (21)

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.6

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

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html

Url: http://cansecwest.com/slides/2013/PrivateCore%20CSW%202013.pdf

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-1929

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949932

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1929

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/06/3

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1929

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101836.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1929

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-1929

Severity Score

4.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.4
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2013-1929

Date: June 7, 2013

Language: C

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CVSS v2

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