CVE-2013-1767

Public on 2013-02-28
Modified on 2014-09-15
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the shmem_remount_fs function in mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.10 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) by remounting a tmpfs filesystem without specifying a required mpol (aka mempolicy) mount option.
Severity
Low severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2013-06-11 ALAS-2013-200 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.0 AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 6.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2013-1767 Mitre: CVE-2013-1767