CVE-2013-6380 Null dereference in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published Updated

Local attackers can cause a denial of service via invalid pointer dereference in the aacraid driver through crafted ioctl calls.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2013-6380?

CVE-2013-6380 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Nov 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The aac_send_raw_srb function in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 does not properly validate a certain size value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an FSACTL_SEND_RAW_SRB ioctl call that triggers a crafted SRB command.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6380?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2013-6380?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2013-6380 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-6380 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6380, GHSA-wc48-x993-f73q.

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