CVE-2013-0268

Description

The msr_open function in arch/x86/kernel/msr.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.6 allows local users to bypass intended capability restrictions by executing a crafted application as root, as demonstrated by msr32.c.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c903f0456bc69176912dee6dd25c6a66ee1aed00

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908693

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/07/12

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.6

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00018.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c903f0456bc69176912dee6dd25c6a66ee1aed00

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3