CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-4343

Published: Sep 25, 2013 | Modified: Aug 11, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Use-after-free vulnerability in drivers/net/tun.c in the Linux kernel through 3.11.1 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing an invalid tuntap interface name in a TUNSETIFF ioctl call.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 3.8 (including) 3.10.16 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.11 (including) 3.11.5 (excluding)

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