CVE-2013-1929

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-06-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3_read_vpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the Vital Product Data (VPD) data structure.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.8.5; 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3, 3.8.4

References

http://cansecwest.com/slides/2013/PrivateCore%20CSW%202013.pdf
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101836.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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.6
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/06/3
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1

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