CVE-2013-1059

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

net/ceph/auth_none.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an auth_reply message that triggers an attempted build_request operation.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
Linux kernel: before 3.0.86; from 3.1 before 3.2.49; from 3.3 before 3.4.53; from 3.5 before 3.9.10; 3.10 — fixed in 3.0.86, 3.2.49, 3.4.53, 3.9.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 3.0.86, 3.2.49, 3.4.53, 3.9.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://hkpco.kr/advisory/CVE-2013-1059.txt
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/09/7
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1941-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1942-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=767633&action=diff
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977356
http://hkpco.kr/advisory/CVE-2013-1059.txt
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00012.html

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