CVE-2013-0290

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The __skb_recv_datagram function in net/core/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8 does not properly handle the MSG_PEEK flag with zero-length data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and system hang) via a crafted application.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.7.9; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+164)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=77c1090f94d1b0b5186fb13a1b71b47b1343f87f
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00017.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.8.bz2
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/15/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911473
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/77c1090f94d1b0b5186fb13a1b71b47b1343f87f
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=77c1090f94d1b0b5186fb13a1b71b47b1343f87f
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00017.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.8.bz2

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