CVE-2013-7348

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2014-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Double free vulnerability in the ioctx_alloc function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving an error condition in the aio_setup_ring function.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.12.3; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+314)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d558023207e008a4476a3b7bb8706b2a2bf5d84f
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/10
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d558023207e008a4476a3b7bb8706b2a2bf5d84f
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d558023207e008a4476a3b7bb8706b2a2bf5d84f
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/10
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d558023207e008a4476a3b7bb8706b2a2bf5d84f

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