CVE-2013-1827

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-03-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

net/dccp/ccid.h in the Linux kernel before 3.5.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for a certain (1) sender or (2) receiver getsockopt call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.5.3; 3.5.1, 3.5.2

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=276bdb82dedb290511467a5a4fdbe9f0b52dce6f
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/07/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919164
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/276bdb82dedb290511467a5a4fdbe9f0b52dce6f
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=276bdb82dedb290511467a5a4fdbe9f0b52dce6f
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0744.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/07/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919164
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/276bdb82dedb290511467a5a4fdbe9f0b52dce6f

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