Use-after-free vulnerability in the shmem_remount_fs function in mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.10 allows local users to gain…

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the shmem_remount_fs function in mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.10 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) by remounting a tmpfs filesystem without specifying a required mpol (aka mempolicy) mount option.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (20)

• openSUSE-SU-2013:0847 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-1796-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915592 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2013:0882 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• MDVSA-2013:176 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• USN-1797-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-1788-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-1793-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5f00110f7273f9ff04ac69a5f85bb535a4fd0987 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2013:0928 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5f00110f7273f9ff04ac69a5f85bb535a4fd0987 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-1792-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.10 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-1794-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• RHSA-2013:0744 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• USN-1795-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0925 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-1787-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-1798-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20130225 Re: kernel: tmpfs use-after-free (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 15:13 UTC.