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CVE-2013-2188

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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: 2013-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the do_filp_open function in fs/namei.c in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle failure to obtain write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging access to a filesystem that is mounted read-only.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975406
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975406

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