CVE-2013-6378

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-11-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The lbs_debugfs_write function in drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) by leveraging root privileges for a zero-length write operation.

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=a497e47d4aec37aaf8f13509f3ef3d1f6a717d88
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0771.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-3043.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0100.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59262
http://secunia.com/advisories/59309
http://secunia.com/advisories/59406
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/22/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63886
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2064-1

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