CVE-2013-2232

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2013-07-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The ip6_sk_dst_check function in net/ipv6/ip6_output.c in the Linux kernel before 3.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using an AF_INET6 socket for a connection to an IPv4 interface.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.9.9; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+232)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a963a37d384d71ad43b3e9e79d68d42fbe0901f3
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-2013-1166.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/02/5
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1938-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1941-1

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