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CVE-2013-2224

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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: 2013-07-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free operation and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a sendmsg system call with the IP_RETOPTS option, as demonstrated by hemlock.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-3552.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936

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