Published: 25/09/2013 Updated: 11/08/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 615

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/tun.c in the Linux kernel up to and including 3.11.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing an invalid tuntap interface name in a TUNSETIFF ioctl call.

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Synopsis Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues and one bugare now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 24The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as havingimportant secu ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/tunc in the Linux kernel through 3111 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing an invalid tuntap interface name in a TUNSETIFF ioctl call ...

CWE-399 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007733 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/12/3 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137889490510745&w=2 http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg250066.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2049-1 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1490.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2023-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2020-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00071.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00039.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00048.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1490 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/2049-1/https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4343

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