CVE-2013-2188

A certain Red Hat patch to the do_filp_open function in fs/namei.c in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle failure to obtain write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging access to a filesystem that is mounted read-only.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.7 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-07-16

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975406