CVE-2013-0310

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The cipso_v4_validate function in net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an IPOPT_CIPSO IP_OPTIONS setsockopt system call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.4.7; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+120)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=89d7ae34cdda4195809a5a987f697a517a2a3177
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/20/5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912900
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/89d7ae34cdda4195809a5a987f697a517a2a3177
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=89d7ae34cdda4195809a5a987f697a517a2a3177
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/20/5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912900
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/89d7ae34cdda4195809a5a987f697a517a2a3177

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