CVE-2013-1929
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-06-07 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 15:20
Severity ?
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3_read_vpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the Vital Product Data (VPD) data structure.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://cansecwest.com/slides/2013/PrivateCore%20CSW%202013.pdfExploit
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101836.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.6
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/06/3
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949932
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://cansecwest.com/slides/2013/PrivateCore%20CSW%202013.pdfExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101836.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1645.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/06/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1834-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1835-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1836-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1838-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949932
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/715230a44310a8cf66fbfb5a46f9a62a9b2de424Exploit, Patch
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