CVE-2013-2147

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Published 2013-06-07 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.1

Description

The HP Smart Array controller disk-array driver and Compaq SMART2 controller disk-array driver in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 do not initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via (1) a crafted IDAGETPCIINFO command for a /dev/ida device, related to the ida_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/cpqarray.c or (2) a crafted CCISS_PASSTHRU32 command for a /dev/cciss device, related to the cciss_ioctl32_passthru function in drivers/block/cciss.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
3.9.3	Affected	—
3.9.2	Affected	—
3.9.1	Affected	—
3.9.0	Affected	—
3.9	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
10	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`
sid	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`
forky	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.11.5-1`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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