Bug 1039054 (CVE-2013-6431) - CVE-2013-6431 kernel: net: fib: fib6_add: potential NULL pointer dereference
Summary: CVE-2013-6431 kernel: net: fib: fib6_add: potential NULL pointer dereference
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-6431
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1039070 1039071
Blocks: 1028025
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Reported: 2013-12-06 13:29 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-01-28 19:07:44 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0100 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2014-01-28 22:38:58 UTC

Description Prasad Pandit 2013-12-06 13:29:52 UTC 
Linux kernel built with the IPv6 protocol(CONFIG_IPv6) along with the IPv6
source address based routing support(CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREE) is vulnerable to a
NULL pointer dereference flaw. It could occur while doing an ioctl(SIOCADDRT)
call on an IPv6 socket. User would need to have CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges to
perform such a call.

A user/program with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges could use this flaw to crash a
system resulting in DoS.

Upstream fix:
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 -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/ae7b4e1f213aa659aedf9c6ecad0bf5f0476e1e2
Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2013-12-06 14:13:51 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-28 17:41:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2014:0100 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0100.html
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