CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-2017

Published: May 03, 2013 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 2.6.33.20 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33 (including) 2.6.33 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33-rc1 (including) 2.6.33-rc1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33-rc2 (including) 2.6.33-rc2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33-rc3 (including) 2.6.33-rc3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33-rc4 (including) 2.6.33-rc4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33-rc5 (including) 2.6.33-rc5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33-rc6 (including) 2.6.33-rc6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33-rc7 (including) 2.6.33-rc7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33-rc8 (including) 2.6.33-rc8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.1 (including) 2.6.33.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.2 (including) 2.6.33.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.3 (including) 2.6.33.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.4 (including) 2.6.33.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.5 (including) 2.6.33.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.6 (including) 2.6.33.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.7 (including) 2.6.33.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.8 (including) 2.6.33.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.9 (including) 2.6.33.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.10 (including) 2.6.33.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.11 (including) 2.6.33.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.12 (including) 2.6.33.12 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.13 (including) 2.6.33.13 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.14 (including) 2.6.33.14 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.15 (including) 2.6.33.15 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.16 (including) 2.6.33.16 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.17 (including) 2.6.33.17 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.18 (including) 2.6.33.18 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.33.19 (including) 2.6.33.19 (including)

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