CVE-2013-6380

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2013-11-22
Bugzilla:
1033593: CVE-2013-6380 Kernel: aacraid: invalid pointer dereference

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The aac_send_raw_srb function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 does not properly validate a certain size value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an FSACTL_SEND_RAW_SRB ioctl call that triggers a crafted SRB command.

Find out more about CVE-2013-6380 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

The Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider this issue to be a security flaw due to the full root-like privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN) needed for successful exploitation.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 realtime-kernel Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Will not fix

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