{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2013-1772", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The log_prefix function in kernel/printk.c in the Linux kernel 3.x before 3.4.33 does not properly remove a prefix string from a syslog header, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and system crash) by leveraging /dev/kmsg write access and triggering a call_console_drivers function call." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ce0030c00f95cf9110d9cdcd41e901e1fb814417", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ce0030c00f95cf9110d9cdcd41e901e1fb814417" }, { "name": "openSUSE-SU-2013:1187", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20130226 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: call_console_drivers() Function Log Prefix Stripping buffer overflow", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/26/9" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916075", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916075" }, { "name": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.33", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.33" } ] } }