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…

published July 16, 2013

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00322 · 23.8th percentile
Published
2013-07-16T10:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUL 10:00Z
    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…
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