CVE-2013-4299

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-10-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Interpretation conflict in drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c in the Linux kernel through 3.11.6 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information or modify data via a crafted mapping to a snapshot block device.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.11.6; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+258)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e9c6a182649f4259db704ae15a91ac820e63b0ca
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1436.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1449.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1460.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1490.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1519.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1520.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1783.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1860.html

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