SB2013072912 - Input validation error in Linux kernel
Published: July 29, 2013 Updated: August 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2013072912
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4129)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The bridge multicast implementation in the Linux kernel through 3.10.3 does not check whether a certain timer is armed before modifying the timeout value of that timer, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) via vectors involving the shutdown of a KVM virtual machine, related to net/bridge/br_mdb.c and net/bridge/br_multicast.c.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c7e8e8a8f7a70b343ca1e0f90a31e35ab2d16de1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61193
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984743
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85763
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c7e8e8a8f7a70b343ca1e0f90a31e35ab2d16de1