Detections
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CVE-2013-6763
high
Description
The uio_mmap_physical function in drivers/uio/uio.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not validate the size of a memory block, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via crafted mmap operations, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-4511.
References
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2076-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2075-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2074-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2073-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2072-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2071-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2070-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2069-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2068-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2067-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2066-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2065-1