Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2013-2237 First vendor Publication 2013-07-04
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2237

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18776
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18776
Title: USN-1970-1 -- linux-lts-quantal vulnerabilities
Description: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1970-1
CVE-2013-4254
CVE-2013-1819
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): linux-lts-quantal
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19073
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19073
Title: USN-1973-1 -- linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities
Description: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1973-1
CVE-2013-4254
CVE-2013-1819
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): linux-ti-omap4
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19106
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19106
Title: USN-1972-1 -- linux vulnerabilities
Description: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1972-1
CVE-2013-4254
CVE-2013-1819
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.10
Product(s): linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19211
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19211
Title: USN-1993-1 -- linux-ti-omap4 vulnerability
Description: The system could be made to expose sensitive information to a local user.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1993-1
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): linux-ti-omap4
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19248
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19248
Title: USN-1992-1 -- linux vulnerability
Description: The system could be made to expose sensitive information to a local user.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1992-1
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 12.04
Product(s): linux
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20847
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20847
Title: RHSA-2013:1173: kernel security and bug fix update (Important)
Description: The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2013:1173-00
CESA-2013:1173
CVE-2012-6544
CVE-2013-2146
CVE-2013-2206
CVE-2013-2224
CVE-2013-2232
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 87
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
CentOS Linux 6
Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21146
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:21146
Title: RHSA-2013:1166: kernel security and bug fix update (Important)
Description: The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): RHSA-2013:1166-00
CESA-2013:1166
CVE-2013-2147
CVE-2013-2164
CVE-2013-2206
CVE-2013-2224
CVE-2013-2232
CVE-2013-2234
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 101
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23361
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23361
Title: ELSA-2013:1166: kernel security and bug fix update (Important)
Description: The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013:1166-00
CVE-2013-2147
CVE-2013-2164
CVE-2013-2206
CVE-2013-2224
CVE-2013-2232
CVE-2013-2234
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 33
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23835
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23835
Title: VMware ESX updates to third party libraries
Description: The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2013-2237
Version: 4
Platform(s): VMWare ESX Server 4.1
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23930
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:23930
Title: ELSA-2013:1173: kernel security and bug fix update (Important)
Description: The key_notify_policy_flush function in net/key/af_key.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by reading a broadcast message from the notify_policy interface of an IPSec key_socket.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013:1173-00
CVE-2012-6544
CVE-2013-2146
CVE-2013-2206
CVE-2013-2224
CVE-2013-2232
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 29
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 6
Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27425
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27425
Title: ELSA-2013-1166-1 -- kernel security and bug fix update (important)
Description: kernel [2.6.18-348.16.1.0.1] - [oprofile] x86, mm: Add __get_user_pages_fast() [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] export __get_user_pages_fast() function [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile: use KM_NMI slot for kmap_atomic [orabug 14277030] - [oprofile] oprofile: i386 add get_user_pages_fast support [orabug 14277030] - [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats. [orabug 14051367] - [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for ocfs2. [orabug 13477763] - [x86 ] fix fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug 14038272] - [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075] - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param - [scsi] remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason) [orabug 12342275] - [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346] - [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566] - [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang) [orabug 12740042] - [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646] - fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998] - make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919] - [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514] - [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki) [orabug 10315433] - [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258] - [mm] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events, avoiding hangs and evictions (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization, and also be NUMA-aware (John Sobecki,Chris Mason,Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 9245919] - fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042] - [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9107465] - [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9764220] - Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615] - fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for (KOSAKI Motohiro, Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033] - [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208] - [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346] - [usb] USB: fix __must_check warnings in drivers/usb/core/ (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203] - [usb] usbcore: fix endpoint device creation (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203] - [usb] usbcore: fix refcount bug in endpoint removal (Junxiao Bi) [orabug 14795203]
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013-1166-1
CVE-2013-2147
CVE-2013-2164
CVE-2013-2206
CVE-2013-2224
CVE-2013-2232
CVE-2013-2234
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 5
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): kernel
ocfs2
oracleasm
kernel-PAE
kernel-PAE-devel
kernel-debug
kernel-debug-devel
kernel-devel
kernel-doc
kernel-headers
kernel-xen
kernel-xen-devel
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27469
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:27469
Title: DEPRECATED: ELSA-2013-1166 -- kernel security and bug fix update (important)
Description: kernel [2.6.18-348.16.1] - [x86_64] Fix kdump failure due to 'x86_64: Early segment setup' (Paolo Bonzini) [988251 987244] - [xen] skip tracing if it was disabled instead of dying (Igor Mammedov) [987976 967053] - [ia64] fix KABI breakage on ia64 (Prarit Bhargava) [966878 960783] - [x86] fpu: fix CONFIG_PREEMPT=y corruption of FPU stack (Prarit Bhargava) [948187 731531] - [i386] add sleazy FPU optimization (Prarit Bhargava) [948187 731531] - [x86-64] non lazy 'sleazy' fpu implementation (Prarit Bhargava) [948187 731531]
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2013-1166
CVE-2013-2147
CVE-2013-2164
CVE-2013-2206
CVE-2013-2224
CVE-2013-2232
CVE-2013-2234
CVE-2013-2237
Version: 4
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
Product(s): kernel
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1826

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-04-03 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-04 Name : The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_esx_VMSA-2013-0015_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2013-1832-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2014-0536-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2014-0287-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-26 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2013-0015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-11-08 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1181.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-07-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1264.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-813.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2013-1034.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-12-06 Name : The remote VMware ESX host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : vmware_VMSA-2013-0015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-22 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1998-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-22 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1995-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-10-22 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1992-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2766.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-28 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1972-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-28 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1970-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-21 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_kernel-130827.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-21 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_kernel-130828.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-18 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-2546.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-30 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2745.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-2543.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-2542.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-29 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-1173.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-29 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130827_kernel_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-28 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1173.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-28 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1173.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-23 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1166.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-23 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-1166-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20130820_kernel_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-22 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2013-1166.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-08-21 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2013-1166.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-30 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1913-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-30 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1912-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-194.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981220
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/85dfb745ee40232876663ae206cba35f24ab...
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.9.bz2
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2766
MISC http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3...
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/04/3
REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1166.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1173.html
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-09/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00129.html
UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1912-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1913-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1970-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1972-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1973-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1992-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1993-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1995-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1998-1

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