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CVE-2013-4591

Published: Nov 19, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the __nfs4_get_acl_uncached function in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a getxattr system call for the system.nfs4_acl extended attribute of a pathname on an NFSv4 filesystem.

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

References

vdb-entry

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[oss-security] 20131118 CVE-2013-4591 -- Linux kernel: kernel: nfs: missing check for buffer length in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d3e91a89b7adbc2831334def9e494dd9892f9af

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7d3e91a89b7adbc2831334def9e494dd9892f9af

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.2

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031678

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vendor-advisory

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