CVE-2013-1929

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3_read_vpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the Vital Product Data (VPD) data structure.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/06/3

http://cansecwest.com/slides/2013/PrivateCore%20CSW%202013.pdf

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949932

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.6

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101836.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2