Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2013-1826 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The xfrm_state_netlink function in net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.7 does not properly handle error conditions in dump_one_state function calls, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

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