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CVE-2013-2017

Published: May 3, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.

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

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957705

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http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34

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[oss-security] 20130429 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: veth: double-free in case of congestion

mailing-list

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6ec82562ffc6f297d0de36d65776cff8e5704867

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https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K39655464

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