CVE-2013-1773 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1773?

CVE-2013-1773 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Feb 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1773?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Mrg.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1773?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2013-1773 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2013-1773 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1773, GHSA-wrp6-2w63-vpc4.