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CVE-2013-4129
Published: Jul 28, 2013
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
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References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=984743
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linux-kernel-cve20134129-dos(85763)
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[oss-security] 20130715 Re: CVE Request -- Linux kernel: bridge: BUG at kernel/timer.c:729
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61193
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