CVE-2013-7348 Use after free in n/a

Medium 4.6 Published Updated

Local attackers can trigger a double free in the Linux kernel's AIO subsystem, causing a system crash or potential other impacts.

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-2013-7348?

CVE-2013-7348 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Apr 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Double free vulnerability in the ioctx_alloc function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving an error condition in the aio_setup_ring function.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-7348?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2013-7348?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2013-7348 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-7348 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7348, GHSA-4rvv-3767-jm7p.

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