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CVE-2013-2017

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
03/05/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The veth (aka virtual Ethernet) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage skbs during congestion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging lack of skb consumption in conjunction with a double-free error.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.6.33.20 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33:rc8:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.33.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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