CVE-2013-2929

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 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: none known
Published: 2013-12-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Linux kernel before 3.12.2 does not properly use the get_dumpable function, which allows local users to bypass intended ptrace restrictions or obtain sensitive information from IA64 scratch registers via a crafted application, related to kernel/ptrace.c and arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.12.1; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+267)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00025.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0100.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0159.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0285.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64111
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2070-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2075-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2109-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2110-1

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