CVE-2013-4205

Published: Aug 25, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in the unshare_userns function in kernel/user_namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via an invalid CLONE_NEWUSER unshare call.

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

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6160968cee8b90a5dd95318d716e31d7775c4ef3

x_refsource_CONFIRM

[oss-security] 20130806 Re: CLONE_NEWUSER local DoS

mailing-list

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http://twitter.com/grsecurity/statuses/364566062336978944

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.10.6

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USN-1971-1

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6160968cee8b90a5dd95318d716e31d7775c4ef3

x_refsource_CONFIRM

USN-1974-1

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

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CVE-2013-4205

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