CVE-2013-4514

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 allow local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability and providing a long station-name string, related to the (1) wvlan_uil_put_info and (2) wvlan_set_station_nickname functions.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/04/22

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.12.bz2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2069-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2071-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2075-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2068-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2070-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2076-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2074-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2072-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2073-1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00045.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00002.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63509

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2