CVE-2013-6763

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

12/11/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		3.2.53 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.3 (including)	3.4.71 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.5 (including)	3.10.19 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.11 (including)	3.11.8 (excluding)

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CVE-2013-6763

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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