A certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel 2.6.32 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free operation and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a sendmsg system call with the IP_RETOPTS option, as demonstrated by hemlock.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2012-3552.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2013-07-04T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T15:27:41.085Z

Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-2224

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-07-04T21:55:01.047

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:51:16.880

Link: CVE-2013-2224

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2013-06-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-2224 - Bugzilla