CVE-2013-4470

The Linux kernel before 3.12, when UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) is enabled, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted application that uses the UDP_CORK option in a setsockopt system call and sends both short and long packets, related to the ip_ufo_append_data function in net/ipv4/ip_output.c and the ip6_ufo_append_data function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c.

Score
CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium
Status
Modified - secalert@redhat.com
Published
2013-11-04
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Affected products

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