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CVE-2013-2147

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2013-06-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The HP Smart Array controller disk-array driver and Compaq SMART2 controller disk-array driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 do not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via (1) a crafted IDAGETPCIINFO command for a /dev/ida device, related to the ida_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/cpqarray.c or (2) a crafted CCISS_PASSTHRU32 command for a /dev/cciss device, related to the cciss_ioctl32_passthru function in drivers/block/cciss.c.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 3.9.4; 3.9-rc1, 3.9-rc2, 3.9-rc3, 3.9-rc4, 3.9-rc5, 3.9-rc6 (+5)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10-sp4

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
• http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/127
• http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/3/131
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/05/25
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1994-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1996-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1997-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1999-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2015-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2016-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2017-1

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