CVE-2013-1872 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1872?

CVE-2013-1872 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 19 Aug 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Intel drivers in Mesa 8.0.x and 9.0.x allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (reachable assertion and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving 3d graphics that trigger an out-of-bounds array access, related to the fs_visitor::remove_dead_constants function. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2013-0796.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1872?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mesa3d Mesa, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1872?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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

Is CVE-2013-1872 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1872 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1872, DSA-2704-1, GHSA-847q-55hx-98vj.