Bug 915052 (CVE-2013-1763) - CVE-2013-1763 kernel: sock_diag: out-of-bounds access to sock_diag_handlers[]
Summary: CVE-2013-1763 kernel: sock_diag: out-of-bounds access to sock_diag_handlers[]
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-1763
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: Engineering915055 Engineering915056 915057
Blocks: Embargoed915059
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Reported: 2013-02-24 13:53 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2021-02-17 08:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-24 12:37:26 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0622 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2013-03-11 22:36:36 UTC

Description Petr Matousek 2013-02-24 13:53:08 UTC 
Description:
An unprivileged user can send a netlink message resulting in an out-of-bounds access of the sock_diag_handlers[] array which, in turn, allows userland to take over control while in kernel mode.

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/420
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/260061

Upstream fix:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/260061
Comment 2 Petr Matousek 2013-02-24 13:57:07 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 915057]
Comment 4 Petr Matousek 2013-02-24 14:07:45 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 via RHSA-2013:0622 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0622.html
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-02-27 02:30:02 UTC 
kernel-3.7.9-205.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-03-02 20:02:45 UTC 
kernel-3.7.9-104.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-11 18:40:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2013:0622 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0622.html
Comment 9 John Kacur 2013-06-12 13:44:00 UTC 
The upstream sha1 is 6e601a53566d84e1ffd25e7b6fe0b6894ffd79c0
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