CVE-2013-2188

Published: Jul 16, 2013Modified: Apr 29, 2026

4.7

Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Exploitability: 3.4 / Impact: 6.9

Source: NVD

Description

A certain Red Hat patch to the do_filp_open function in fs/namei.c in the kernel package before 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle failure to obtain write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging access to a filesystem that is mounted read-only.

Affected (1)

Products: Redhat: Enterprise Linux

Redhat

1 product

Enterprise Linux

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Redhat Enterprise Linux	Version 6.0

Related CWEs

CWE-264

References (2)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975406

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975406

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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