CVE-2013-6381

medium
Published 2013-11-27 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Buffer overflow in the qeth_snmp_command function in drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an SNMP ioctl call with a length value that is incompatible with the command-buffer size.

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 Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected 3.2.54
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.11.10-1
sid Fixed 3.11.10-1
forky Fixed 3.11.10-1
bullseye Fixed 3.11.10-1
bookworm Fixed 3.11.10-1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.