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Cent OS: CVE-2012-2313: CESA-2012:1304 (kernel)

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Cent OS: CVE-2012-2313: CESA-2012:1304 (kernel)

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/13/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The rio_ioctl function in drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/dl2k.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.7 does not restrict access to the SIOCSMIIREG command, which allows local users to write data to an Ethernet adapter via an ioctl call.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-firmware
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-pae
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-pae-devel
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-xen
  • centos-upgrade-kernel-xen-devel
  • centos-upgrade-perf
  • centos-upgrade-python-perf

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