CVE-2013-0268

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The msr_open function in arch/x86/kernel/msr.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.6 allows local users to bypass intended capability restrictions by executing a crafted application as root, as demonstrated by msr32.c.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.7.5; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+160)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c903f0456bc69176912dee6dd25c6a66ee1aed00
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/07/12
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908693
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c903f0456bc69176912dee6dd25c6a66ee1aed00
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c903f0456bc69176912dee6dd25c6a66ee1aed00
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00018.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/07/12

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