CVE-2013-2224 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1450.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/06/30/7 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979936