Bug 496192

Summary:	Kernel: dm-snap-persistent: Information leak via crafted mapping (CVE-2013-4299)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	[ <3.11.7 ]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2013-12-27 15:30:48 UTC

CVE-2013-4299 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4299):
  Interpretation conflict in drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c in the Linux
  kernel through 3.11.6 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive
  information or modify data via a crafted mapping to a snapshot block device.

Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester

2022-03-25 19:27:02 UTC

Fixed in 3.12: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e9c6a182649f4259db704ae15a91ac820e63b0ca