CVE-2013-4514

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a long station-name string, related to the (1) wvlan_uil_put_info and (2) wvlan_set_station_nickname functions.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.11.7; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+266)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/04/22
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63509
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2068-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2069-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2070-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2071-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2072-1

Get alerted when CVE-2013-4514 or the next vulnerability affects your stack