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CVE-2013-0313

Published: Feb 22, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The evm_update_evmxattr function in security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.5, when the Extended Verification Module (EVM) is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an attempted removexattr operation on an inode of a sockfs filesystem.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20130220 Re: CVE request - Linux kernel: evm: NULL pointer de-reference flaw

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=913266

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a67adb997419fb53540d4a4f79c6471c60bc69b6

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a67adb997419fb53540d4a4f79c6471c60bc69b6

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.5

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