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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-6378: kernel multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-6378: kernel multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/12/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

The lbs_debugfs_write function in drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) by leveraging root privileges for a zero-length write operation.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-grsec

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