CVE-2013-3302

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2013-04-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the smb_send_rqst function in fs/cifs/transport.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a reconnection event.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.7.1; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+197)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea702b80e0bbb2448e201472127288beb82ca2fe
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59064
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952260
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea702b80e0bbb2448e201472127288beb82ca2fe
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea702b80e0bbb2448e201472127288beb82ca2fe
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/15/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59064
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952260
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ea702b80e0bbb2448e201472127288beb82ca2fe

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