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.
Published: 2013-07-16
Score: 4.7 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-2145 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.
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T15:27:40.993Z

Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-2188

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Status : Modified

Published: 2013-07-16T14:08:50.947

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2013-2188

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2013-06-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-2188 - Bugzilla

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