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Bug 505648 (CVE-2013-7339)

Summary: Kernel: net: rds: dereference of a NULL device (CVE-2013-7339)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: KernelAssignee: Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kernel
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-03-25 11:47:04 UTC
CVE-2013-7339 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7339):

The rds_ib_laddr_check function in net/rds/ib.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.
Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2014-08-10 22:06:08 UTC
CVE-2013-7339 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7339):
  The rds_ib_laddr_check function in net/rds/ib.c in the Linux kernel before
  3.12.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer
  dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via
  a bind system call for an RDS socket on a system that lacks RDS transports.