Unrestricted Access to Ethernet Adapter via SIOCSMIIREG IOCTL Command

CVE-2012-2313 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The rio_ioctl function in drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.7 does not restrict access to the SIOCSMIIREG command, which allows local users to write data to an Ethernet adapter via an ioctl call.

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